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THIS is one of the many books that the great movement towards school hygiene has thrown up. The book, or rather booklet, contains practically nothing that is new, but the selection of topics is done with judgment and care; every main subject of environmental hygiene is touched on with sufficient fulness to meet the needs of immediate practice or to provoke to further reading, and the illustrations are profuse and good. The author has succeeded in treating “the subject as simply as possible.” The work of Dr. Kerr at the London County Council is largely drawn upon. As in Dr. Newsholme's “School Hygiene,” the book is allocated half to the school and half to the scholar. In criticism, it may be said that rather much space is given to matters, e.g. site, building construction, and sanitary appliances, &c., that the teacher cannot alter or affect, and rather little space to what he can affect. But with this qualification the booklet forms a good introduction to the subject. The writing is well adapted to the intended readers.
School Hygiene; a Handbook for Teachers of all Grades, School Managers, &c.
By Herbert Jones. Pp. x + 151. Dent's Mathematical and Scientific Text-books for Schools. (London: Dent and Co., 1907.) Price 2s.
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School Hygiene; a Handbook for Teachers of all Grades, School Managers, &c. . Nature 77, 99 (1907). https://doi.org/10.1038/077099b0
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