The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1914-05-07
CHILDREN GAIN
IN FRESH AIR
DISTINGUISHED MAN DECLARED
SCHOOLS TAUGHT IN FRESH
AIR CLASSROOMS, THE BEST.
Meeting Of National Association for
Prevention of Tuberculosis Being
Held at Washington Today.

| WASHINGTON, May THAT school
| children who are taught in fresh air
class rooms advance more rapidly in
their studies and make greater i'm
provement in weight and strength
than children in regular class rooms,
is conclusion demonstrated by Frank
H. Mann of New York, before the So
Geological Section of the National As
sociation for the Study and Preven-
ton of tuberculosis this afternoon.
The speaker reported on a series of
experiments carried on Jointly by the
New York Committee on the Pre-
vention of tuberculosis and the
Board of Education in which three
groups of children were studied to
note the effect of fresh air upon them.
In one group, the children were
placed in free air classes and were
fed during school hours with milk
and crackers morning and afternoon
in the second group, the children
were placed in fresh air classes but
were not fed and in the third group, |
the children were left in the ordinary
class room under regular conditions.
Every effort was made to Eliminate or
squalize in the comparison such var
able factors as age, home conditions, |
physical condition, school conditions,
nativity, etc The two groups of chill
lren in the fresh air classes were all
and anaemic at ad-
mission.
Children Gain in Weight.
The results of this experiment ex-
ending from September to June,
howed that all of the poorly rourish-
d and anaemic children in the fresh
ir classes gained in weight, red
in the blood, general nutri-
ion, and physical tone. The gains
rere made for the most part inde-
evidently of the home environment
nd of the financial conditions of the
hildren's family, suggesting that the g
between poverty and NAL I
utrition in school children is not so a
ose as has been commonly assumed
nd that cases of extreme poverty s
18th lack of necessary food at home b
re not nearly SO prevalent as has Il
zen frequently stated. 1t was also d
that, even without school 0
eding, fresh air classes can be ruin
ith advantage to the children of is
,or families, although the greater W
,nefit was obtained where extra feed tt
g of children was employed
Disease Implanted Early. - -
"All lines of tuberculosis activity M
ad more or less directly back to the h,
eat truth that most of the implanta- q,
ms of this disease occur in child
3D." was the declaration of DR.. VIM. in
White of Pittsburg, another speak tr
this afternoon, in arguing that all fo
,vements for the betterment of chill 70
en- should center in the anti-tuber- P,
isis organization. III
DR.. White pointed out that anything Sc
ich anti-tuberculosis societies did mi
the welfare of the child was di- ne
It contribution to the prevention of
>erculosis. DR.. John 3. HaWes
retary of the Massachusetts Trus-
s of Hospitals for Consumptives,
ston, declared that direct infection ito
by their parents or other be
mbers of the family who have tub MI
ulosis is very largely responsible arr
the spread of the disease A large lea
centage of original infection OF tub spe
ulosis, DR.. Hawes contended occurs lea
childhood. will