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Scrap-book containing newspaper and journal cuttings and some programmes, invitations and cartoon illustrations

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Mainly contains reviews of Cantlie's book Physical Efficiency. A Review of the deleterious effects of Town Life upon the population of Britain, with suggestions for their arrest (London: Putnam, 1906), a manual for physical health, concentrating on Cantlie's views on boys' and girls' clothing, health benefits of kilted skirts for young boys, the decreasing birth rate, high infant mortality and decline of the Anglo-Saxon race, shrinking size of families, the evils of polluted city air, Eton jackets, bottle-feeding of infants, comforters and perambulators, and the health benefits of walking for the middle-aged, the Norfolk jacket, singing and dancing.
Subjects also covered in the scrap-book are: Cantlie's views on the degeneration of Londoners, exercise for the elderly, the perils of cigarette smoking; medical practice in the tropics; the ambulance movement and College of Ambulance established by Cantlie in 1914; obituaries of Cantlie and Sir George Evatt, co-founder of the Volunteer R.A.M.C., 1883.
Includes two cartoons of Cantlie from the Charing Cross Hospital Gazette, c.1899.
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Scrap-book containing newspaper and journal cuttings and some programmes, invitations and cartoon illustrations

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