The sanitary condition of our national schools
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Roche, Anthony. 'The sanitary condition of our national schools'. - Dublin: Journal of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland,Vol. X Part LXXX, 1899/1900, pp539-547Download Item:
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Abstract:
That the health of the individual and the community depends
largely on their surroundings being sanitary is now universally admitted. That this rule is specially applicable to the young,
is acknowledged by all sanitarians, and that therefore their
schools, wherein they spend so many hours, should meet all the
requirements of modern sanitation will hardly be contested by
anyone devoting any consideration to the subject.
The growing and undeveloped structures of children, their
close contact in schools for a number of hours, their less
power of resistance to cold and other depressing influences, all
render them remarkably susceptible to the causes and spread
of disease. An inquiry, therefore, into the sanitary conditions
of our National School is not alone interesting, but of
great practical importance. According to the last Official report
there are no less than 8,651 of these schools, and on their
rolls 808,467 students. I have for some years been making
personal observations and inquiries into the sanitation of these>
schools, as, however, my sphere of observation has not extended
over many parts of Ireland, I will rely rather on the evidence
of the inspectors of these schools and on official returns. These
inspectors have had ample and extended opportunities of observation,
they cannot be expected to be prejudiced against the
system of which they form a part and, therefore, when they speak
so plainly of the unsanitary condition of many of these schools
their opinon may be trusted as impartial. I will now read some
extracts from the reports taken from the last available report
of the Commissioners of National Education.
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Read Tuesday, February 20th, 1900
Author: Roche, Anthony
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Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of IrelandType of material:
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Journal of The Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of IrelandVol. X Part LXXX 1899/1900
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National education, Sanitary conditionsISSN:
00814776JEL H75
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