The nursery school / by Margaret McMillan.

  • Margaret McMillan
Date:
1919
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Credit: The nursery school / by Margaret McMillan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    a dozen public-houses within a stone’s throw oi the school, and some of the streets are quite dark and very noisy after dusk. All this makes the experiment more, not less, valuable ; the work is as difficult as it can well be, and if success can be won here, it can be won anywhere. Such an environment breeds a great crop of evils. The clinic we started in 1908 at Bow and removed in 1910 to Deptford has been crowded for ten years with thousands of children suffering from diseases that can easily be wiped out for ever. True, the clinic, as such, cannot make any kind of war with the causes that breed these diseases. It cures them again and again. It does not prevent and cannot prevent their return. We opened at last a large bathing centre. Here children are made clean and well, but even they come back again and again. Now a large system of Nursery-Schools, if properly equipped, would cut at the root of all this misery. It would bring up a race of children with new habits and new needs. It would open the eyes of mothers to things they have never glimpsed at all. We say it would do all this, because we have seen it done. Now in ten years the clinic has not wiped out any disease at all ! It has not emptied its own waiting- room ! Yet the Nursery-School has swept its children far, far from this old world. It is unthinkable that any of these should attend the minor ailment
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