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Excerpt from School Hygiene An Important Subject - There is a wide-spread Opinion among medical men, that children dur ing school years are subject to grave dangers to health; that these dangers, many of them at least, are closely related to school attendance; that they are avoidable, and ought to receive more attention at the hands of teachers and boards of control. Diseases to which Pupils are Subject - From nu hygienic conditions in the school-room and its immediate surroundings we have headaches, nervous ailments and nervous exhaustion, ini paired eyes, consumption, and other diseases, arising from improper and deficient ventilation, diseases arising from insufficient and excessive heating, from conditions of uncleanliness, from improper, excessive, and insufficient physical exercise, and from exposure to contagion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.