Excerpt from Newsholme's School Hygiene: The Laws of Health in Relation to School Life"School Hygiene: The Laws of Health in Relation to School Life" was first published in the year 1887, and since then, with only one revision in the year 1903, it has had a large and continuing annual sale, having reached its twelfth edition in 1907.When first published, "School Hygiene" gave a fair picture of the needs of public elementary schools in relation to personal and general hygiene, and formed a useful guide to the means for improving educational efficiency, so far as this is determined by hygienic considerations. For some years, however, the rapid advance of the science of school hygiene and the extensions of its practice in new departures in school-life have rendered it highly desirable that "School Hygiene" should be rewritten, if its continued sale were to be authorized.My own work during recent years has not been specially concerned with the educational problems of school hygiene, except in so far as they form part of the general problem of Public Health; and it was evidently desirable that a new book should be written, merely using "School Hygiene" as its framework, by an authority on the educational side of hygiene.The publishers are to be congratulated on having secured for this task the services of Dr. James Kerr, whose knowledge of the science of school hygiene and whose original work in promoting its advance are unrivalled among English-speaking communities.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.

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