Eyesight and school life . EYESIGHT AND SCHOOL LIFE. 33 girl sitting at these desks; the one writing and theother reading. The boys feet, it will be observed,rest on the floor ; the girls do not, as the deskat hand when the photograph was taken, was atrifle large for her. The two photographs {Figs. 10 and 11, page 35)may be contrasted with those just referred to. Aboy is seated on a bench without a back, and isleaning over a table which is too high for him,and the faulty position assumed is inevitable undersuch circumstances. This matter of seating of children is one of themost important if we
Eyesight and school life . EYESIGHT AND SCHOOL LIFE. 33 girl sitting at these desks; the one writing and theother reading. The boys feet, it will be observed,rest on the floor ; the girls do not, as the deskat hand when the photograph was taken, was atrifle large for her. The two photographs {Figs. 10 and 11, page 35)may be contrasted with those just referred to. Aboy is seated on a bench without a back, and isleaning over a table which is too high for him,and the faulty position assumed is inevitable undersuch circumstances. This matter of seating of children is one of themost important if we are to prevent short sightor crooked backs. A medical report at Strasburgon an investigation into the influences of schoollife, speaks strongly as follows : We look uponthe doing away of the old school desks as themost urgent necessity of school hygiene. Everyhalf years delay causes fresh mischief Snellen has also expressed himself forciblyupon this subject : The increase of myopiais a question which has greatly occupied
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