Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1886-08-21 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

THE HIGHER EDUCATION OF  WOMEN IN AMERICA.  The Daily Netes New York correspondent telegraphs :—Dr. Moore's statements before the Medical Association concerning the disastrous physical effects of higher education on American women telegraphed to the Erenivy Post excite much interest and some surprise. There is a wide difference of opinion among the local physicians with a general disposition to regard Dr. Moore's statements as too strong. Official statistics recently collected contradict him flatly. An elaborate schedule of questions was sent to 11809 Female College graduates last year. and detailed replies received from 705. These were collated and tabulated by the Massachusetts Bureau of Labour Statistics and published. They show that 83 per cent, of the graduates are American. A percentage of 23 spent their childhood in the city, and 58 in the country, and began to study at the age of five to sin; 41 per cent, at home and 57 per cent, at school took about four hours' exercise daily. The average age of entering college was about 18. At the time of entering 78 per cent. I were in good health, two fair and 20 poor. The 'deterioration in health during the college course is 1 shown by 19.58; the improvement in health by 51.13; or the percentage of those to whom the college course was physically beneficial was 1.55 greater than those to whom it was injurious. The most prevalent cause of disorders among those studying severely was constitutional weaknesa Three per cent. of those of whom the parents were both in good health showed an increase of health, and 17 per cent, of those whose parents were in poor health showed a decline. Only 50 cases in all of brain troubles were reported. Only 12 of diseases of the eyes. Commenting on the statistics, the Bureau says "The facts which we present would seem to warrant the assertion that seeking a college education on the part of women does not in itself necessarily entail the loss of health or the serious impairment of the vital forces. Indeed, the tables show this so conclusively that there is litttle need, were it in our province, for an extended discussion of the subject. The graduates, as a body, entered the college in good health, passed through the course of study prescribed without material change of health, and since graduation by reason of the effort required to gain higher education do not SPAM to have become unfitted to meet the responsibilities or bear a proportionate share of the burdens of life.. I obtained this afternoon the views of several eminent physicians in this city on the subject. All agreed that girls between 13 and 18 years should not be forced in hard study, but did not accept the view Dr. Moore takes concerning the effects of higher education on maternity. One of the ablest among them said. "It is probably a hot that the women of the first 50 years of this century in the same family line had larger families than the women of the second half century, but that has no reference to education. The women of the higher social classes have fewer-children than women of a lower social scale, but that I believe to be universal. I would not condemn the present system of education, though it may be as Dr. Moore says, but if so, the fact has not come wider my notice or observation."  THE inquest on the bodies of the two children murdered by their father, Richard Revell, was resumed on Wednesday at St. Peter's, Ramsgate, before Mr. S. Paine, coroner. A little further evidence was taken, but no fresh particulars of any importance were received. The jury, after a short deliberation, returned a verdict of "Wilful murder against Richard Revell. He died the lame afternoon.