Progress Report of Public Health in Wisconsin Volume 5 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 Excerpt: ...as recess throughout the state, and the theory prevailing among the majority of teachers is, that the object of recess is to give an opportunity for attending to the calls of nature without interrupting the regular routine of the school by demands on 1 Among the publications of this board is a small circular, giving Instructions for the treatment of the. apparently drowned, which should receive a wide circulation, especially among the older boys in our public schools, who might also be profitably drilled in the execution of its methods. It may be had on application therefor, free of all cost. School Hygiene. the part of individual scholars. Now, every one is well aware of the part played by habit in modifying the functions of the body, and of the further fact that habit is powerful in establishing periodicity in the performance of some of the most important of those functions; it is probable, moreover, that this tendency to periodicity is more readily established in children and young persons generally than in adults, by reason of the greater plasticity of theorganization during the time of growth and development. Thus much being admitted, let us see what follows: The habit of relieving the bowels and bladder at a certain hour daily being once formed, and the accommodation for so doing within the space of time allowed therefor being wholly insufficient, the weaker will inevitably be pushed aside by the stronger, with one of two results, one of which, though only too familiar to mothers, may better be left to the imagination than described; in the other event, the will is called upon to aid the power of the restraining muscles, the act is postponed indefinitely, and the child suffers injury, in too many cases irremediable. It is far better that children shou...