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
Footnote 41:
The Handwriting on the Wall, by J. C. Cooper, p. 222.
Footnote 42:
Education and the Larger Life, by C. Hanford Henderson, p. 85.
Footnote 43:
Poverty, by Robert Hunter, p. 11.
Footnote 44:
Hunter, _op. cit._, p. 216.
See also Mr. Hunter’s article, The Heritage of the Hungry, in the
_Reader Magazine_, September, 1905.
Footnote 45:
Address to the National Educational Association, September 24, 1904,
as reported in the newspapers.
Footnote 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.
Footnote 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.
Footnote 48:
Report to State Board of Charities. R. Hunter, The Heritage of the
Hungry.
Footnote 49:
The Hunger Problem in the Public Schools—What the Canvass of Six Big
Cities Reveals. Special correspondence in the _Philadelphia North
American_, May 21, 1905.
Footnote 50:
_Idem._
Footnote 51:
_Idem._
Footnote 52:
_Idem._
Footnote 53:
Testimony before the Interdepartmental Committee on Physical
Deterioration, the Royal Commission on Physical Training (Scotland),
Reports of the London School Board on Underfed Children, etc.
Footnote 54:
Quoted by G. Stanley Hall, in Adolescence.
Footnote 55:
_Idem._
Footnote 56:
Final Report (1882–1883) of the Anthropometric Committee appointed by
the British Association in 1875.
Footnote 57:
The figures quoted are taken from an excellent little pamphlet, The
Cost of Child Labor,—A Study of Diseased and Disabled Children,
published by the Child Labor Committee of Pennsylvania.
Footnote 58:
Poverty,—A Town Study, by B. S. Rowntree.
Footnote 59:
In the pamphlet, The Cost of Child Labor, above referred to.
Footnote 60:
Annual Report of the Massachusetts State Board of Health, 1877.
Footnote 61:
Growth of St. Louis School Children, by William T. Porter. Report of
the Academy of Science of St. Louis, vol. vi, pp. 263–380.
Footnote 62:
Special Report of Anthropological Investigation of 1000 white and
colored Children of the New York Juvenile Asylum, by Dr. Hrdlicka.
Footnote 63:
Report of the Royal Commission on Physical Training (Scotland), p. 30.
Footnote 64:
State Maintenance, by J. Hunter Watts, p. 10.
Footnote 65:
Adolescence, by G. Stanley Hall.
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