Country Life
FARMERS AND CHILDREN.
How fruitfully the wealth of the farmer—and indeed of the distributor too—may be an agent in increasing the health of the community has been most suggestively illustrated by a North British experiment. Nearly nine thousand young children of the elementary schools in Aberdeen are now daily served at school with a jorum of fresh milk ; and it is probable that their health is essentially improved, that they develop better, have better teeth and learn better. The work of the teachers too is lightened. This reform, which proceeds steadily—the four figures may soon spread to five—is one symptom only of a movement organized between those officially concerned with farming, with public health and with education ; and the methods of the reformers are as well worth imitation all over the country, in rural not less than in urban communities as, say, the institution of "the Oslo Breakfast," which has so greatly improved the health of Scandinavian children.
* * * *
Previous page
