Air and health / by Ronald Campbell Macfie.

  • Ronald Campbell Macfie
Date:
[1909]
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Credit: Air and health / by Ronald Campbell Macfie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    systems of ventilation. A clean shed, an overhanging tree, are almost all that are required in the way of building; and a saving in the drug bill can be set against the cost of the food. It may be mentioned that an Open-air Schools and Training Association has been started with the declared object of rousing public opinion to the danger of allowing a large portion of the population to drift into physical, mental, and moral inefficiency, and to help to provide a remedy:— « I. By assisting in the establishing of open-air schools and settlements, where children may be trained for open-air life and work, and may so develop their own powers of initiative and resourcefulness as to become self-reliant and independent citizens, capable of bearing their share of the responsibility of the race. 2. By acting as a bureau of information and a means of uniting all those interested and willing to help in the work. 3. By providing lecturers who will go to any part of the country and explain the work and objects of the Association to any education authorities, societies, or groups of persons interested, by means of lectures, illustrated by lantern views, photographs, &c. The address of the Hon. Secretary of the Association is 25, Wimpole Street, London, W. The effect of open-air education in counteracting the moral and physical degeneracy consequent on city life can hardly be exaggerated. Those who have had charge of open-air sanatoria for the poor can testify that the open-air life not only improves the physical health of the invalid, but improves his morale in every way; and in the case of open- air schools, the chief moral danger of sanatoria—the danger of prolonged idleness—is absent. In the case of poor children whose nights are often spent
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