Health and cleanliness : a text book for teachers
1938-03 1938 1930s 69 pages : illustrations CLEANLINESS OF THE BODY 21 results of habits of cleanliness with the attainment of current desires. The boy who wants to be strong can be told of the part played in the fulfilment of such a wish by frequent baths and rough towellings. The boy who wants t...
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| Institution: | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
| Language: | English English |
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London : Health and Cleanliness Council
March 1938
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10796/F648C148-8740-466D-A273-56269499E98E http://hdl.handle.net/10796/1FC372BD-27AB-402B-840D-7D86E7CC9BD8 |
| Summary: | 1938-03
1938
1930s
69 pages : illustrations
CLEANLINESS OF THE BODY 21 results of habits of cleanliness with the attainment of current desires. The boy who wants to be strong can be told of the part played in the fulfilment of such a wish by frequent baths and rough towellings. The boy who wants to run well will take advice regarding the care of his feet. The boy who has learned to value a pleasing appearance will take pains with his nails. Correlation of the subject-matter of this section with class work in nature study and physiology should be carried out wherever possible. Children know that dogs carefully bury their excrement, and that rabbits excrete outside their burrows. At some stage children will learn that all excreta are injurious to the animals excreting them, and will thus realise the reason for a number of the habits they have been taught — why, for instance, the teacher insists that the pupil who has made use of the water-closet must wash his hands before returning to the classroom, or why particular attention to the excretory organs should be the rule in connection with the daily bath. The pupil learns a further reason for cleanliness of the skin, in that we attempt to remove sweat, itself an excrement, and that we use soap for this purpose, since water is of itself often insufficient; he realises, too, why hot water is more effective than cold. With older children diagrams may usefully supplement drawings or real objects. The diagram of a finger-nail shows at once those places where dirt is likely to accumulate, and makes clear the reason for the kind of treatment advocated. The diagram of a sweat-gland makes clear at once the whole reason for the trouble we suggest the child should take with his skin, since washing — (a) Removes dirt or dried perspiration (sweat) from the pores. (b) Leaves a clear passage through which perspiration may readily escape. (c) Removes perspiration from the skin.
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