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The Role of the Teacher in the Physical and Mental Health of Children

The Role of the Teacher in the Physical and Mental Health of Children THE ROLE OF THE TEACHER IN THE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH OF CHILDREN* V. COLLINS It is interesting to consider the state of health of the people of Australia at the time when Frank Tate became Director of Education in Victoria, at the beginning of this century. It is interesting to consider, too, what role the teacher then had in the teaching of health. One is immediately aware of the immense changes that have occurred over the last 60 years. In 1902 the infant mortality rate was high-out of every 1,000 children born alive, one could expect that 100 would die. In Victoria, hundreds of children each year would die from diphtheria, measles, whooping cough and scarlet fever. Now there are no deaths from diphtheria, and rarely deaths from the others. Pneumonia and gastro-enteritis (summer diarrhoea) caused many more hundreds of deaths. The Control of Disease in Childhood It is interesting to survey the changes in health over the past 200 years­ to bring this period into perspective with physical health today. In London, for instance, in the first half of the eighteenth century, three out of every four children born died before their fifth birthday. One hundred years http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian Journal of Education SAGE

The Role of the Teacher in the Physical and Mental Health of Children

Collins, V.
Australian Journal of Education , Volume 6 (1): 17 – Mar 1, 1962
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SAGE
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© 1962 Australian Council for Educational Research
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0004-9441
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2050-5884
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10.1177/000494416200600107
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THE ROLE OF THE TEACHER IN THE PHYSICAL AND MENTAL HEALTH OF CHILDREN* V. COLLINS It is interesting to consider the state of health of the people of Australia at the time when Frank Tate became Director of Education in Victoria, at the beginning of this century. It is interesting to consider, too, what role the teacher then had in the teaching of health. One is immediately aware of the immense changes that have occurred over the last 60 years. In 1902 the infant mortality rate was high-out of every 1,000 children born alive, one could expect that 100 would die. In Victoria, hundreds of children each year would die from diphtheria, measles, whooping cough and scarlet fever. Now there are no deaths from diphtheria, and rarely deaths from the others. Pneumonia and gastro-enteritis (summer diarrhoea) caused many more hundreds of deaths. The Control of Disease in Childhood It is interesting to survey the changes in health over the past 200 years­ to bring this period into perspective with physical health today. In London, for instance, in the first half of the eighteenth century, three out of every four children born died before their fifth birthday. One hundred years

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Published: Mar 1, 1962

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