The Press., 1893-09-28
w. C. T. U. DEPARTMENT.
The Study of Hygiene in the Public School
 An Important New Law.

The Study of Hygiene in the Public Schools. An Important New Law.
 No suggestion in education has been so rapidly taken up and Incorporated into law as the study of the effects of alcohol and other narcotics upon the human sys- | tenn. In less than twelve years, by act of congress and state legislatures, forty states 1 and all the territories and the District of | Columbia have made physiological or sci entific temperance a required study for all pupils in their public schools. The fol- lowing is a copy of the new law on this l subject, just passed by the Conn. legisla- ture, to take the place of the statute of 1886, which it repeals:
 Sec. 1. The nature of alcoholic drinks and narcotics and special instruction as to their effects upon the human system, in connection with the several divisions of the subject of physiology and hygiene, shall be included in the branches of study taught in the common or public schools | and shall be studied and taught as other like required branches, by the use of graded text books in the hands of pupils where other branches are thus studied, and orally in the case of pupils unable to read, and by all pupils in all schools SUD- ported wholly or in part by public money. Sec. 3 The text books used for the in- struction required by the preceding sec tion for intermediate and primary pupils shall give at least one-fifth of their space | to the consideration of the nature and eff fleets of alcoholic drinks and narcotics, and the books used in the highest grade l<Nf< I,l 1I, H. rL. twenty pages of matter relating to this subject, but when this subject is massed wholly or in pa1t in chapter or chapters at the end of book, such book shall not be considered as meeting the require ments of this law. { Sec. 3. It shall be the duty of allschool visitors to report to the comptroller if the provisions of this act have not been con- piled with, as specified in the1 preceding sections; and any failure thus reported, ,or otherwise satisfactorily proven, shall be deemed sufficient cause for withholding | the amount of school dividend which such | district or districts are otherwise qualified to receive
 Sec. 4. No certificate shall hereafter be granted to any person to teach in the pub- | lie schools of Connecticut who has not passed satisfactory examination in phys 1 lology and hygiene, with special reference | to the nature and effects of alcoholic drinks and other narcotics upon the hu- man system.
 The attention of school committees, ,su- perintendents, and teachers is called to | the following features of this new law, which should be enforced with the open | ing of the new school year:
 1. That the nature and effects of aleo- holic drinks in connection with physiolo- gy and hygiene is 8 compulsory study for all pupils in all public schools in the state. | 3. That this branch must be taught and studied orally in the case of all pupils not able to read, and with we'll graded text
 books in the hands of all pupils able to read.
 3. These text books for all grades be- low the high school must give at feast one-fifth of their space to temperance matter, and high school books at least 20 pages, and such matter appearing in the last chapter or chapters does not count
 4. Failure to comply with the provis- ions fof this act involves, to any school district thus failing, the forfeiture of it's share of the public school money.
 The school committees will find issued