[170]. Idem.
[171]. Ralph M. Vincent, M.D., op. cit., also evidence given before the Interdepartmental Committee on Physical Deterioration.
Virginia M. Walker, op. cit.
[172]. This paragraph is taken, with slight changes, from my paper on The Problem of the Underfed Children in our Public Schools, in the Independent, May 11, 1905.
[173]. See the Official Report of the National Labor Conference on the State Maintenance of Children, Held at the Guildhall, London, etc.
[174]. See, for instance, the evidence given by Mr. John Tweedy, F.R.C.S. and L.R.C.P., President of the Royal College of Surgeons and of the Ophthalmological Society of the United Kingdom, before the Interdepartmental Committee.
[175]. Physical Efficiency in Children, by Sir James Crichton Browne, in the Report of the International Congress for the Welfare and Protection of Children, London, 1902.
See also the Reports of the Interdepartmental Committee and the Royal Commission on Physical Training (Scotland), for descriptions of the systems adopted in various European cities.
The Medical Inspection of School Children, by W. L. Mackenzie, M.A., M.D.
For a very suggestive, but technical, account of a system of medical inspection adopted in Dundee, Scotland, see the Report of Investigation into Social Conditions, published by the Dundee Social Union,—Part I, The Medical Inspection of School Children.