PHYSICAL DETERIORATION.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2579, 13 August 1909, Page 2

PHYSICAL DETERIORATION.

Here, in New Zealand we know that, while the great mass of the people live .under comparatively comfortable conditions, there are a surprisingly large number of children suffering from ailments due to- ignorance or neglect. Wo know that many of these must inevitably become adults of inferior capability unless, their defects are 1 corrected. It is not,much use drilling a child suffering from adenoid vegetation, nor exercising one afflicted with myopia—at least it is not until the surgeon has removed the one and the oculist attended to the other. An anaemic girl derives no benefit from 'wielding Indian clubs. Indeed, 'she may bo injured. Wo would like to see physical drill given very much more attention in our schools than it now receives, but it is abundantly clear that unless it is-ac-companied by other physical activities which go to the root of physical health, the 'training will be of little or no benefit as an insurance against poverty, ignorance, and vice leaving their marks on succeeding generations. — “New Zealand Times.”