Health and cleanliness : a text book for teachers
1938-03 1938 1930s 69 pages : illustrations 22 HEALTH AND CLEANLINESS At a later stage some introduction to the germ theory will give further reasons for the removal of dirt. Harmful germs find their food on a dirty body, and more particularly in crevices, where they may remain undisturbed. They i...
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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/10796/5A086375-1CB5-4613-8F07-6223B5D2F90F http://hdl.handle.net/10796/483778D0-3A4A-49C1-A8E4-457A93810B9A |
| Summary: | 1938-03
1938
1930s
69 pages : illustrations
22 HEALTH AND CLEANLINESS At a later stage some introduction to the germ theory will give further reasons for the removal of dirt. Harmful germs find their food on a dirty body, and more particularly in crevices, where they may remain undisturbed. They increase in numbers, and excrete substances which are poisons to human beings. Further, any injury to a dirty skin permits the wound to become septic; in which state it heals with difficulty, and may spread to such an extent as to endanger life. The material has been left as a "group of lessons" or a large subject topic rather than divided into a number of semi-independent topics. Such a division, where it is necessary, the teacher can best make for himself. In a school where nature study, physiology, and biology are taught, some of the material of this chapter will find a place as a series of corollaries of such lessons, whilst other matter may with advantage be specifically dealt with. Further, it is clear that at no stage of the child's school career may we look upon the topic of personal cleanliness as definitely exhausted, since we are constantly able, as new knowledge accumulates, to learn of further reasons for cleanly habits; and, as new interests present themselves, to discover still further inducements to practise them. [Image with text: "THE SAFE WAY TO HEALTH"] Reproduction of Health and Cleanliness Council's Poster (P. 82), 20" x 30", in three colours.
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