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    South Australia - Education

    Health and Allied Matters

    "Gymnasiums for Schools" is in the Register,
    9 April 1859, page 3c,
    Observer,
    16 April 1859, page 7b,
    Register,
    4 March 1886, page 5a,
    "Disease in Schools" in the Advertiser,
    29 December 1885, page 6g.

    A public schools drill demonstration is described in the Register,
    26 October 1883, page 7a.
    Observer,
    1 November 1884, page 34c.

    "School Holidays and School Work" is in the Register,
    27 and 28 July 1884, pages 4g and 7b.

    "Physical Education" is in the Register,
    3 July 1884, page 5a-6a,
    "Physical Training of Children" on
    21 October 1889, page 4f.

    "Health Arrangements at State Schools" is in the Register,
    21 May 1887, page 7e.

    "Defective Eyesight in Public Schools" is in the Register,
    30 July 1889, pages 4g-7c,
    12 August 1889, page 6c,
    25 June 1892, page 4g; also see
    Observer,
    2 July 1892, pages 24d-29e,
    Register,
    8 January 1897, page 5c,
    15 and 27 March 1897, pages 6c and 9f.
    "School Children's Sight - Defective Eyes" is in the Advertiser,
    11 March 1905, page 11b,
    1 April 1905, page 6f,
    "Ophthalmia in State Schools" on
    17 May 1906, page 6f,
    "Aids to Vision" on
    4, 20 and 21 February 1907, pages 11a, 10a and 6c; also see
    21 April 1909, page 6h.

    "Schoolhouses, Conveniences, Lighting, Ventilation, etc" is in the Register,
    15 December 1891, page 6e.

    "Closing the Schoolhouse Doors" is in the Register,
    19 December 1891, page 4g.

    "Education, Moral Teaching and Religion" is in the Register,
    6 and 7 September 1893.

    Sanitation in schools is discussed in the Advertiser,
    18 November 1896, page 6a,
    Register,
    3 February 1897, page 4h,
    "Work and Punishment in Schools" on
    21 May 1897, page 4g,
    "Schools and Holidays" on
    30 September 1897, page 4h.

    "Microbes and Children" is in the Observer,
    17 November 1900, page 25a.

    "Plague Spots in the Schools" is the subject of debate in the Register,
    28 and 29 June 1904, pages 7h and 6g,
    2, 5, 9 and 11 July 1904, pages 4d-6e, 3g, 4d and 3e.

    "Dental Hygiene in Schools" is in the Register,
    27 July 1905, page 7h.
    "Dental Inspection in Schools" is in the Advertiser,
    21 July 1908, page 6d; also see
    28 July 1919, page 6e,
    17 May 1920, page 6f,
    6 November 1928, page 15e,
    The Mail,
    26 May 1934, page 2.
    "Children's Teeth" is in the Advertiser,
    13 September 1909, page 6d; also see
    31 May 1912, page 12h,
    Express,
    20 May 1920, page 1a,
    "School Children's Teeth" in The Mail,
    6 December 1924, page 3d,
    "Oral Hygiene in Public Schools" in the Register,
    19 and 24 June 1926, pages 5a and 9g.

    "School Hygiene" is traversed in the Advertiser,
    7 September 1905, page 10d,
    29 January 1906, page 6c,
    4 March 1907, page 5e,
    10 May 1907, page 6c,
    20 January 1908, page 4d.

    "Ophthalmia in State Schools" is in the Express,
    17 May 1906, page 1i.
    "Children's Eyes" in the Observer,
    10 September 1910, page 42b.

    "Ailments of Children - Hints for Schoolteachers" is in the Register,
    21 July 1906, page 14c,
    "Medical Inspection of School Children" on
    20 February 1907, page 10c,
    21 January 1908, page 7f,
    Advertiser,
    26 October 1908, page 6e,
    Register,
    17 December 1909, page 10f,
    19 November 1910, page 6c-e,
    Advertiser,
    10 November 1910, page 10d,
    "Healthy Children - Hints to the Education Department" in the Register,
    26 June 1908, page 5b.

    "Healthy Children" is in the Register,
    20 March 1909, page 8e.

    "Physical Culture" is in the Register,
    22 June 1909, page 4b,
    Advertiser,
    2 July 1909, page 10b,
    18 December 1914, page 8c.

    "Model Schools Swimming Competition" is in the Express,
    18 March 1886, page 2d; also see
    17 April 1886, page 2d;
    for information on swimming instruction see
    14 October 1886, page 4e,
    1 December 1886, page 5g.
    State school annual swimming matches are reported upon in the Observer,
    26 March 1892, page 20b.

    "Teaching Swimming in State Schools" on
    5 April 1909, page 6f; also see
    25 August 1909, page 10b,
    "Instruction in Swimming - Should it be a School Subject" on
    7 January 1911, page 14g,
    "Tuition in Swimming" on
    21 April 1925, page 19f,
    "Teaching Swimming in Schools" is in The News,
    12 November 1928, page 6c.
    "Teaching the Young to Swim" is in the Observer,
    28 February 1920, page 18b,
    18 January 1930, page 44c.
    Also see South Australia - Sport - Swimming and Bathing

    "School Athletics" is in the Advertiser,
    27 April 1909, page 4c.

    Medical inspection of schools is discussed in the Chronicle,
    12 November 1910, page 45a.

    "Temperance and Hygiene - Instruction in Schools" is in the Express,
    19 May 1911, page 2c.

    Information on and photographs of "instructions in correct breathing methods" are in the Chronicle,
    8 July 1911, page 31.

    "Physical Culture - Teaching in Schools Recommended" is in the Register,
    13 and 22 May 1911, pages 15h and 9c.

    A School of Physical Training is discussed in the Observer,
    27 January 1912, page 24e,
    3 and 10 February 1912, pages 29 (photo) and 53a.

    Teacher training in the art of physical education is described in the Advertiser,
    16, 20, 25 and 26 January 1912, pages 10c, 22a, 12a and 8d,
    7 February 1912, page 14h.

    "A Delicate Problem" (sex education) is discussed in the Register on
    29 and 30 March 1912, pages 4d and 15e; also see
    also see Observer,
    6 April 1912, page 50c,
    Advertiser,
    29 March 1912, page 8h,
    7 June 1912, page 8e,
    27 July 1914, page 8d,
    6 June 1925, page 19a,
    Observer,
    29 November 1913, page 44c,
    3 August 1929, page 43e.
    Also see South Australia - Social Matters - Miscellany - Sex Instruction and Allied Matters

    "Doctors in the Schools" is in the Express,
    27 and 29 May 1912, pages 4a and 3h,
    "Doctor and Child" in the Advertiser,
    30 May 1912, page 8e.

    "School Children's Health" is in the Register on
    27 June 1913, page 6c,
    Express,
    16 July 1914, page 4d.

    "Medical Inspection of Schools" is in the Observer,
    25 July 1914, page 47b.

    "Hungry School Children" is in the Observer,
    17 April 1915, page 25b,
    1 May 1915, page 49d.

    "School Children and Disease" is in the Observer,
    27 May 1916, page 27e.

    "Health of School Children" is in the Observer,
    17 July 1915, page 47a,
    Register,
    4 and 7 April 1919, pages 4c and 7g,
    Advertiser,
    12 April 1921, page 8e,
    9 December 1924, page 12f,
    "Health and Psychology" on
    30 January 1925, page 8f.

    "Doctors and State Schools" is in the Register,
    27 January 1916, page 4c,
    "Health in the School" in the Advertiser,
    14 July 1917, page 6f.

    "Health of School Children" is in the Register,
    4 and 7 April 1919, pages 4c and 7g,
    Advertiser,
    12 April 1921, page 8e,
    9 December 1924, page 12f,
    "Health and Psychology" on
    30 January 1925, page 8f.

    "Importance in Games - Dalton Plan on Trial" is in The News,
    6 February 1924, page 6e.

    "Medical Inspection of Children" is in The News,
    6 December 1924, page 1a.
    A photograph of the medical and inspection staff is in the Chronicle,
    28 February 1925, page 35.

    "Milk for School Children" is in the Register,
    8 January 1925, page 6e,
    "Health and the Schools" on
    25 February 1925, pages 8e-9f,
    "Milk as a School Adjunct" in The News,
    2 and 6 March 1925, pages 6c and 10d.

    "Doctors in Schools" is in The Mail, 4 July 1925, page 1f.

    "Health in Schools" is in the Advertiser,
    12 May 1926, page 12e,
    11 April 1927, page 12f,
    7 May 1929, page 12f,
    "Injurious Tuckshops" on
    26 November 1927, page 16d.

    "Sport and the Schoolboy" is in the Advertiser,
    3 April 1934, page 8d.

    "Six Boys in a Hundred are Color Blind" is in The News,
    9 November 1934, page 4f.

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