Phillips County herald., 1922-11-30
HEALTH in SCHOOL
What It Means to the School Boy or
Girls In After Life

ASlue IrOm CudFdCteT Uufiuiu6,
health stands as the biggest objective
Of the schools; for what doth 1t profit
a man if he gain the whole world and
lose his health? II it could have been
done as If by magic, and il the man
with crippled diseased body-one
who has an incurable disease and suf-
ferss untold pain-should you offer a
million dollars in gold to exchange
places with him, would you do It?
Happiness stands above gold and sill
yer.
Good health not only means happi-
ness, but 1t is necessary for economic
reasons. II one is sick only few
days, work suffers and many things
are neglected. II children are in good
health, the parents can devote their
time and strength to maintaining
those conditions that add happiness
and prosperity to the home, but sick
child requires constant care.
Again, to raise a boy or girl to the
age of eighteen or twenty involves an
expense of around 100000 on the
part of the parents. Society through
the school, churches and other organ
izations invests in the preparation of
the child for future usefulness. Ill
health means waning Of efficiency
and the sacrifices of the parents and
society counts for little. Death at an
early age makes the transaction
stand at an economic loss.
Dr. Irving Fisher of Yale states
that the industrial workers of the U.
6. lose each year because Of Illness
about $4,000 days, involving loss to
industry, and to the wages and the
medical costs about s772,s57,0o0
Much Of this loss is preventable. 1t
is estimated by the English Royal
Commission on Poverty that 55 to 60
per cent Of the poverty in Great Brit
ain is due to ill-health. DR.. Rapeer
atstes that the average family contri-
butes one dollar in five of its regular
income through some form of taxa
ton, direct or indirect, because OF
some surrn o. sickness.
We are beginning to realize that
the poor work in school-eliminations is
nonprom ,tions and rctardations is
sausef largely D. ilihealth and ply
sical defects. And further, it is just
dawning upon US that physical causes
have much to do with crime
When we consider the misery and
suffering connected with ill-health.
and the cost individually and collect
lively, We hesin to see the importance
nf the teaching OF health IN the
schools.
In thrs GOOD old schoor' OF ycster.
day tnat we hear 30 much aboIt
there were about four distinctive feats
in the teaching Of physiology and
hygiene fhey are about rs follows
~ TO name the bones Of the body;
t2) name the principal muscle, /;
t3) TO trac the circulation OF .he
blood; ca to describe the proc 5
OF digestion. The writer well 10.
members having TO remain after
school to study because he was un.
able in class to tell what muscle VA
used In raising the arm; in lowering
the arm. ald in the eyes.
Even though there has been mach
improvement. yet tn teaching q
subject of h alth in the schools o4a
does not IA IN as n ch a { n
Pupils ars found In ever. s,
ted who can pass u ood lni.
on tho 1i ct matt BIT a..
real health habits i.nra
Of the wi- done r.
habits q GIVE aA
formed
childr eed b.
and quo morniu a
have ~ toir.t
use Of nd cof L.
good mi ID eat
wash q hands
without mplfg
without ling
walk strn
chest ito Z;
air po SO,
hen o. n d.
uiarity ,ccpins
from s hotr
door 4 10 per
Cora chccl
fncntni health
tice a. hlldre
school nduail. 81
and the " OF b {,
the ch, .howing In
number rci cor Bit,
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