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The Whitehaven News - Thursday, August 14, 1913

SCHOOL DOCTOR AND TEACHING
OF NEEDLEWORK.
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 Dr. MORRISON, medical officer to the Cumberland Education Committee, in his annual report issed on Thursday, points out that among girls of from twelve to fourteen years of age there are 9 to 13 per cent more cases of visual defects than among boys of the same age.
 
 He attributes this to the teaching of needlework, which entails a strain upon the eyes, and he suggests that prizes for needle work should be entirely abolished.
 
 Teachers are inclined to insist too strongly, he says, upon neatness in sewing. Exhibition needlework must show fine neat stitches, but in later life the busy mother has not the time to make extremely fine stitches, and a girls training should fit her to make quickly useful garments that will stand wear and in which fine sewing is not essential.
 
 
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