HEALTH AND CLEANLINESS
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Siu,—I hope your medical correspondent will one day consider the relationship of dirt to disease. After sixty years of national " education " we need to make anti-litter appeals, and that admirable organization the Health and Cleanliness Council finds abundant scope for its activities. It is to be hoped that not a single penny will be spent in increasing literacy until every primary school is put into a first-class hygienic condition. Half-cleaned windows, ink-stained desks, dingy walls, dust-laden ledges and accu- mulated junk, are no environment for the child who is to be " educated," and there is no reason why a school should not be as clean as a hospital or a battleship. Mr,. Punch's joke of the.leadcr of the waits giving the order : 4` Nah, then, clean flees in front ! " tells its own tale. I am,
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