[Report 1929] / School Medical Officer of Health, Mansfield Borough.

  • Mansfield (England). Borough Council.
Date:
1929
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Credit: [Report 1929] / School Medical Officer of Health, Mansfield Borough. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    those matters which will be carried back into the home. In many of the Schools such a scheme is at work. Health posters, especially those published by the Health and Cleanliness Council, are freely used within the school buildings. The theory of hygiene and its application to food and drink, clothing, cleanliness, ventilation, etc., should be regularly taught and discussed. As well, the simple story of the functions of the body and its structure will arouse interest in that wonderful machinery of which we are each the individual custodian. Hygiene is the science of “good health,” not of disease. This is, then, a subject on which the growing mind should be early focussed, so that healthy thoughts and minds may develop within a healthy body. Use should be made in every School of the “Handbook of Suggestions on Health Education” and of the syllabus of the “ Hygiene of Food and Drink,” issued by the Board. The “ Health Practice and Health Talks for Young Children,” contained in Part I. of the Handbook, is particularly suitable in the case of Infant and Junior Schools. Definite time should be allotted in each class and form to the teaching of these matters. Such teaching will bear fruit as regards health and cleanliness, nor will it necessitate a long period of expectancy before visible results are attained. School Accommodation.—On 16th February the new Bull Farm School was opened. This is what is termed a Junior School, and will deal with children between the ages of five and eleven years. It is the first School in Mansfield of this class, and complies with the latest requirements of the Board of Education. Nine classrooms are provided for the 440 children who will attend.