On the neglect of physical education and hygiene : by Parliament and the educational department, as the principle cause of the degeneration of the population, of the excessive infantile & general mortality, and of many diseases and deformities; with an abstract of a report on the present state of physical education on the continent, by Doctor Roth's special commissioner; and suggestions relative to the introduction of these neglected branches of national education / by Dr. Roth.

  • Roth, Mathias, 1839-1891.
Date:
1879
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Credit: On the neglect of physical education and hygiene : by Parliament and the educational department, as the principle cause of the degeneration of the population, of the excessive infantile & general mortality, and of many diseases and deformities; with an abstract of a report on the present state of physical education on the continent, by Doctor Roth's special commissioner; and suggestions relative to the introduction of these neglected branches of national education / by Dr. Roth. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    After all, the first consideration of a Minister should be the health of the people If • • ^^'^ stature of the race every ten years diminishes, the history of that country will soon he the history of the past.—(Extracts from a Speech of the Eight Hon. B. Disraeli, the present Prime Minister, at the Free Trade Hall, Manchester, April 3, 1872—see page 8.) Neither the Educational Department, Parliament, the London nor any other School Board, are yet alive to the importance of Scientific Physical Education, although the physique of the people is deteriorating, as proved by the diminution of height since 1845, when, out of 1000 recruits, only 105 were under 5 ft. 6 in., while in 1873 more than three times as many, namely, 364, were under that height, and consequently the standard of recruits was necessarily and gradually diminished to 5 ft. 4J in., and the maximum of age increased from 25 to 30.—{Paper on Excessive Infant Mortality and Model Nursing.) According to the views of the Prime Minister, the history of England will soon be the history of the past. The present Ministry took office vs^ith a sanitary PROGRAMME, WHICH AS YET (according to the Times of Oct., 1878) THEY HAVE DONE LITTLE TO FULFIL. 7(r