Excerpt from Health in the School: Or Hygiene for Teachers

Looked at from the point of view of self-interest, teachers have every motive for preventing whatever may interfere with the children's work. There is nothing more brain-dulling than impure air, and the purblindness which arises from defective light management and improper working position. "School-stress" translated into plain language means, in the vast majority of cases, ignorant school management. It is of little use to study new educational methods unless the material on which they are to be tried is brought into a reasonable condition of physiological receptivity.

Slow as the public has been to recognize that primary education extends far beyond the historic "three R's", it is beginning to awake to the fact that even these modest requirements cannot be effectively met in semi-darkness, or in foul rooms.

To several writers in the technical journals - notably to Professor Kenwood, to Professor Findlay, to Miss Alice Ravenhill, and to the accomplished author of the special articles in the British Medical Journal of 1904 and 1905 - I am indebted for valuable information which has proved of much service in Tasmanian school practice, and in the writing of this book.

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