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as separate units; they number more pupils than the Standards of the other schools. In the Team examination the College had at its disposal no less than 12 divisions, and could make up a Team out of the top boys, and still have 2 in
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reserve.
18. In Appendix G is given an extract from the Annual Report of the Head- master of Queen's College, in which he deals with the teaching of this subject and the results attained at the College during the year.
January 31, 1906.
EDWARD A. IRVING,
Inspector of Schools.
Appendix A.
NUMBERS INSTRUCTED IN HYGIENE IN 1905.
23222
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Standards
Standards
Bchool.
Total,
III, to V.
VI. and VII.
Queen's College
550
150
700
St. Joseph's
123
35
158
Diocesan Boys'
92
123
Italian Convent
69
88
Ellis Kadoorie
63
86
Wantasi
56
56
...
Cathedral School
42
5
47
Yaumati
42
42
Diocesan Girls'
32
3
Belilion School
21
3
Victoria School
8
13
21
Kowloon School
4
7
11
French Convent
18
6
19
Salyingpun
10
8
18
St. Mary's
17
4
21
...
St. Stephen's...
61
61
Victoria Grant School
6
6
Fairlea
8
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8
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1,217
1,524
Total
307
2 2 2 2
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Nor-These are the numbers who have received instruction during the year. They are not necessarily all under- inmirsation at the time of the examination. The last four schools did not competa.
Appendix B. EXAMINATION PAPERS.
December, 1905.
1.—Advanced Course for Boys.
(Time allowed :-Two hours and a half.)
What is meant by saying that 6 per 1,000 volumes of CO, in the air is the limit of impurity permissible in the air of dwelling rooms; and how is this. limit arrived at?
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2. Mention the different kinds of domestic filters you know, and explain why some of them are really useless or even dangerous to health.
3. How are food substances classified? Give examples of each class. What quantities approximately of each class of food substances are necessary daily for a man doing moderately hard work?
4. How does the value of clothing vary with its material, thickness and
colour !
5. What is a damp course? What means can be adopted to keep basement rooms dry?
6. What is the best method of dealing with nightsoil and urine-
(1) In the country?
(2) In a city?
7. What is meant by the incubation period of an infectious disease; and of what value is the knowledge of the incubation periods of different diseases in preventing their spread?
II-Advanced Course for Girls:
The Girls' paper was the same as the Boys', except that for question 6 the following was substituted :-
Explain the importance of training Nullahs and natural watercourses near
inhabited houses in a tropical country.
III. Elementary Course for Boys and Girls.
(Time allowed:-Two hours.)
1. What amount of fresh air is necessary for a man to breathe every hour;
and what will happen to the air of a room in which people are sleeping all night, if the windows and doors are kept shut?
2.
What would you do to prevent a village well from being made foul by
dirty water getting into it?
3. Why do we cook our food before we eat it?
4. Why is the clothing padded with cotton wool, which is largely used by
the Chinese in winter, not a healthy kind of clothing?
5. What would you recommend to be done to a kitchen in a Chinese tenement
house, so as to make it as sanitary as possible?
6. What is the proper thing for each householder in Hong Kong to do with
the different waste matters from his house every day?
7. What is the danger in the habit of spitting anywhere over the floors of houses?
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Appendix C.
DIRECTIONS ISSUED IN CONNECTION WITH THE EXAMINATIONS.
To Managers of English Grant Schools.
His Excellency the Governor is very anxious to encourage a knowledge of Hygiene in the English Schools of the Colony. He has therefore had printed the accompanying work, which he wishes to make a compulsory subject in Grant Schools. Section 26 Note (1) of the Code will shortly be amended accordingly.
The
The book is divided into two Courses Advanced and Elementary. Elementary Course should be taken by Standards III, IV and V, and the Advanced Course by Standards VI and VII. The lessons can conveniently be taken as reading lessons or as object lessons, and it is desired that each lesson should be taken first as the one and then as the other. When taken as object lessons, they should be illustrated by simple apparatus. Two lessons a week of three-quarters of an hour each should be ample.
The books will shortly be on sale at cost price (about 25 centsad I shall he much obliged if you will let me know as soon as possible how many copies are likely to be used this year in your schools. Each scholar in Standard III and above should have a copy.
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