Physiological aspects of the liquor problem / investigations made by and under the direction of W. O. Atwater, John S. Billings [and others] sub-committee of the Committee of fifty to investigate the liquor problem.

  • Billings, John S. (John Shaw), 1838-1913
Date:
1903
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Credit: Physiological aspects of the liquor problem / investigations made by and under the direction of W. O. Atwater, John S. Billings [and others] sub-committee of the Committee of fifty to investigate the liquor problem. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    virgi]st:a. [In Virginia, although a regulation of the board of education re- quired instruction in physiology and hygiene, it was not until the winter of 1901-1902 that persistent effort has secured a law on the statute books.] Act approved January 24, 1900. Acts of Assembly, 1899-1900, ch. 132. In every public free school shall be taught . . . physiology and hygiene. ... In the teaching of physiology and hygiene approved text-books shall be used, plainly setting forth the effects of alcohol and other narcotics on the human system; and these effects shall be as fully and thoroughly taught as other branches of said last-named subjects. VERMONT. Statutes, 1894. Sec. 683. In every town there shall be kept for at least twenty- eight weeks in each year, at the expense of said town, by a teacher or teachers of competent ability and of good morals, a sufficient number of schools for the instruction of all the children who may legally attend all the public schools therein; and all pupils shall be thoroughly in- structed in . . . elementary physiology and hygiene, with special reference to the effect of alcoholic drinks and narcotics on the human system. . . . Sec. 822. [Applies to school districts.] All pupils shall be thor- oughly instructed in . . . elementary physiology and hygiene. . . . [For earlier legislation see Acts of 1886, No. 33, and Acts of 1888, No. 9, sec. 95.] ■WASHINGTON. Laws of 1897, ch. 118. [The basis of this law may be found in the General Statutes, 1891, at sees. 810, 854, and 855, approved March 27, 1890.] Sec. 58. It shall be the duty of all teachers to endeavor to impress on the minds of their pupils the principles of morality, truth, justice, temperance, and patriotism; to teach them to avoid idleness, profan- ity, and falsehood; to instruct them in the principles of free govern- ment, and to train them up to the true comprehension of the rights, duty, and dignity of American citizenship. Sec. 65. All common schools shall be taught in the English lan- guage, and instruction shall be given in the following branches, viz. : Reading, . . . physiology and hygiene with special reference to the effects of alcoholic stimulants and narcotics on the human system, his- tory of the United States, and such other studies as may be prescribed