The health and physique of school children / by Arthur Greenwood.

  • Greenwood, Arthur, 1880-1954.
Date:
1913
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Credit: The health and physique of school children / by Arthur Greenwood. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    improvement and the means taken to bring it about may possibly be fortuitous ; nor must it be forgotten that the period of prosperity which the textile industries of Yorkshire have experienced since 1908 is likely to be reflected in improved nutrition among the children. It may, however, be said with safety that the experience of Bradford makes it most desirable that experiments similar to those which it has undertaken should be widely extended, and that careful records should be kept of their results. When brought into relation with the figures showing the decline in the physique of Bradford children at the age when half-time labour begins, these records of improvement suggest the urgent importance of concentrating attention on the lengthening of the period of school attendance, of restraining juvenile and adolescent labour, and of making the conditions in factories and workshops such as to be less likely than they are at present to inflict injury upon the young persons entering them. It is scarcely credible that the community will continue for long to be satisfied with improving the health of children while they are in attendance at school, only in order that it may be deteriorated by overwork and insanitary conditions as soon as they enter industry. R. H. Tawney.