School and industrial hygiene / by D. F. Lincoln.

  • Lincoln, David F. (David Francis), 1841-1916.
Date:
1896
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: School and industrial hygiene / by D. F. Lincoln. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    to be allowed to seem indolent, for reasons elsewhere indicated ; and it is palpably unsafe to subject all scholars to an equal pressure. Over-driven children will often study late and sleep poorly; they then rise late, dress in haste, and rush for school in dread of a mark for tardiness, often not pausing to sit down at the breakfast-table. They thus enter on the day's work with an exhausted and irritable system, which does not have a chance during the forenoon—so taken up is it with school-thoughts— to remember its need for repair and rest. The lunch- eon-basket probably contains food suited to attract a jaded system and to produce dyspepsia—cake and pie and doughnuts. The child finishes the school- tasks, and goes home with an armful of books and an aching head—in need of food and rest and play, but hardly aware of either, and intent simply on learning the next day's lessons. There is no recovery from this strain, for the lessons are not learned until bed- time, when the experience of the day before is re- peated, and so on day after day until the fixed term expires. This over-work is unfortunately apt to occur at the very time of the year when the system is least able to bear it. The exhibitions, the closing examina- tions, and the stress of the struggle for prizes, come in the months of April, May, and June, when the body craves fresh air and the eyes long for green 2* B