In the preparation of the text free use has also been made of the files of the following journals: British Journal of Children’s Diseases; British Medical Journal; New York Medical Journal, Archives of Pediatrics; Lancet, Journal of the American Medical Association, etc.
II. The School Child
[41]. The Handwriting on the Wall, by J. C. Cooper, p. 222.
[42]. Education and the Larger Life, by C. Hanford Henderson, p. 85.
[43]. Poverty, by Robert Hunter, p. 11.
[44]. Hunter, op. cit., p. 216.
See also Mr. Hunter’s article, The Heritage of the Hungry, in the Reader Magazine, September, 1905.
[45]. Address to the National Educational Association, September 24, 1904, as reported in the newspapers.
[46]. See Dr. Warner’s excellent little books, Mental Faculty; The Study of Children; The Nervous System of the Child, for a discussion of nervous signs and the whole subject of child health.
[47]. The tendency of children to give such answers has been frequently noted and pointed out by foreign investigators. In general, I think it can safely be said that children are prone to hide their poverty and to exaggerate in an opposite direction.