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for the instruction of school teachers would have been given in the course of the winter. This hope has not, however, been realized, as, during the short winter days. the teachers in the country districts had not sufficient time at their disposal to travel to Valletta in order to attend the lectures. It has, therefore, been decided to deliver the lectures during the ensuing summer; they will be given by Dr. T. Agius, Professor of Physics in the University, and will be illustrated with lantern slides.
3. The Chief Government Medical Officer has now completed the text-book referred to in Sir Charles Mansfield Clarke's despatch, No. 216, of the 8th December, 1903,* and the work has been placed in the hands of the printers.
I have, &c.,
HÁRRY BARRON, Major-General,
Officer Administering.the Government.
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As regards general results, these lectures may be said to have been successful in bringing vividly before the minds of the teachers the state of things surrounding them in their homes and school-rooms, the necessity of using care and ordinary preventions against disease, and the desirability of receiving further and fuller information respecting this important subject. No examination was held at the end of the course, but instructions have been given to the teachers of the aided schools to carry out in their daily school lives the rules given them respecting the proper ventilations of their school-rooms, the proper closing of the doors and traps of the school-privies, &c., and I am using every endeavour to see that these instruc- tions are carried out.
GEORGE SIMPSON,
Inspector of Schools.
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No. 55. BERMUDA.
GOVERNOR SIR R. M. STEWART to THE EARL OF ELGIN.
(Received May 21, 1907.)
(No. 43.) MY LORD,
Government House, Bermuda, May 6, 1907. I HAVE the honour to acknowledge the receipt of your Lordship's circular despatch of the 28th of March last, † enclosing a précis of reports from the Crown Colonies and Protectorates in the tropics on the progress made during 1905 with the teaching of the rudiments of hygiene in the schools of those countries.
2. I have the honour to report that in November last a course of six lectures on hygiene was given by the Medical Officer of Health and Surgeon-Captain Wanhill, Royal Army Medical Corps. These lectures were attended by the teachers of the aided schools, teachers from several of the private schools, and some members. of the general public. I enclose herewith a copy of a short report from the Inspector of Schools on the subject.
3. As reported to your Lordship in my despatch, No. 24, of the 21st of Febru- ary last, the new Board of Education, as reconstituted, entered on their duties on the 1st instant. I have requested the Board to endeavour so far as may be practic- able, with the funds at their disposal, to encourage the teaching of hygiene in the aided schools of the Colony.
I have, &c.,
R. M. STEWART, Lieutenant-General, Governor
Enclosure in No. 55.
and Commander-in-Chief.
INSPECTOR OF SCHOOLS to COLONIAL SECRETARY, Bermuda.
April 30, 1907.
In November last a course of six lectures on hygiene was given by Dr. Harvey, Medical Officer of Health, and Surgeon-Captain Wanhill, Royal Army Medical Corps; the first, fifth, and sixth lectures being given by Dr. Harvey; the second, third, and fourth by Captain Wanhill. All the teachers of the aided schools (excepting two who were absent on account of sickness), teachers from several of the private schools, and some members of the general public, attended the lectures regularly and attentively. As both lecturers were fully cognizant of the sanitary, or insanitary, condition of the Island, the lectures were given mainly from that point of view. Each person attending the lectures was supplied (free of charge) with a copy of the outline scheme for teaching hygiene and temperance recently issued by the English Board of Education; and as Dr. Wanhill's lectures were amply illustrated by diagrams and tables, they seemed to awaken much interest among his hearers.
* 44737: not printed; but see enclosure in No. 4.
↑ No. 51.
‡ Not printed.
(No. 103.) MY LORD,
No. 56. HONG KONG.
ACTING GOVERNOR MAY to THE EARL OF ELGIN. (Received May 23, 1907.)
In accordance with the instructions contained in the 6th paragraph of Mr. Lyttelton's Circular despatch of the 26th August, 1905,* I have the honour to transmit six copies of a report by the Inspector of Schools showing the progress that has been made with the teaching of hygiene in this Colony during the year
Government House, Hong Kong, April 23, 1907.
1906.
2. In addition to the masters referred to under the first heading of the report as having passed Stage I. of the South Kensington Hygiene Examination and as having entered for the Royal Sanitary Institute Examination for Teachers, four of the masters of Queen's College, the Head Master of the Victoria British School, and three masters of the Diocesan Boys' School hold good English certificates in hygiene or physiology.
3. To meet the request of the ministers of the Protestant Churches that instruction as to the evil effects of opium smoking should be given in the Hong Kong schools, I am having paragraphs on this subject and on the use of alcohol added to the hygiene text-book.
4. The proportion of the total number of students in the Government and assisted schools that received instruction in hygiene-about one-fourth-and the quality of the instruction, as evidenced by the representatives of the eight out of ten schools getting over 80 per centum of full marks in the examination on the advanced course, and of the three best teams getting over 70 per centum of full marks in the examination on the elementary course, are satisfactory. The suggestions of the Inspector of Schools for next year's examination will be acted upon.
5. I propose, in future years, should Your Lordship have no objection, to meet Mr. Lyttelton's instruction as to furnishing a brief annual report on the progress made in the teaching of hygiene, by directing the Inspector of Schools to embody paragraphs on the subject in his Annual Departmental Report.
I have, &c.,
F. H. MAY, Officer Administering the Government.
Enclosure in No. 56.
REPORT ON THE STUDY OF HYGIENE IN HONG KONG SCHOOLS, 1906.
Laid before the Legislative Council by Command of His Excellency the Governor. EXAMINATIONS FOR MASTERS.
The teaching of hygiene has been steadily pursued in the schools of the Colony
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