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    XL.—PHYSICAL, TRAINING.

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    « Miss Nightingale, who began iier caree...

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    Xl.—Physical, Training.

    XL . —PHYSICAL , TRAINING . BY EDWXN" CHAD WICK , ESQ ., C . B . ' _^

    « Miss Nightingale, Who Began Iier Caree...

    « Miss Nightingale , who began iier career of devotion as a missionary in the schools of the poorstatesin a letter to me on the

    schoolmistress unsanitary condition ' days ) of bred scho ols d , "I , y have eyes unquestionabl , and nose _. scarlet y seen fever ( in my in

    the higher class ( even ) of , boys' schools . Every one , has seen the same as to measles in all rich and poor schools ( National

    Union process , & c ) . But parents , rich and poor , are so blinded by the , idea that every body must have measles once in their life , ( and

    ' you . had better have it young ' , ) that they do not understand what they It is see no . " mitigation of the evils inflicted in the large proportion of

    . schoolsthat there are a considerable number of improved schools to which , they do not attach . These evils are illustrative of a widely

    prevalent neglect of the physical training of children . But if the for unsanitary children conditions of the laboring of schools and were middle entir classes ely removed were made , if all all schools that

    is requisite , —in warming and ventilation and personal conveniences , tem —the subj leng ects th growing of time childr daily en during to violation bodil which y constraint of the laws present of and mediaeval h inaction , sys and and

    to forced mental labor , is in pysiology ference psychology to protect , is injurious the population to body as from well deterioration as mind , and . demands

    inter-If we observe young children in a state of nature , _tlj , eir peculiar mobility during periods exertion of growth , their short incessant at firstand changes and

    tion growth activit with y advances of mu manifestations scular , excited by of quickl , changes leasure y vary when ing objects allowed of , free mental longer atten as of - scope ,

    pain , when long restrained;—if p we ask to what these changes subservewe receive for answer from the physiologist , that they serve

    to excite , the whole nervous and muscular system , and to promote common healthy bodily practice assimilation of school and instruction development is six . hours The theory ' quietude and and the

    muscular inactivity , at intervals of three hours each with only occasional variations of positionand during this bodily inactivity ,

    continued attentionand mental , labor of very young children , say from six or seven , to ten years old and upwards . To ensure the

    for bodil ( for adults periods y inactivity ) the whi service ch , and are enforce difficult of the continued school to sustain teacher mental , and is inj made attention urious to to be and exceed one labor of ,

    severe repression , to keep little children still , whilst every muscle ti contribution on * We artment of our are reader of on indebted the a s subjec . National It to formed t which the Association kindness a we portion have of of at frequentl Mr his Glasgow . Address Chadwick y . pressed to for the upon thi Public s the important Health atten-Dep ,

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1860, page 262, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121860/page/46/