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 alarming kind of duty this was too, to make his entrance with. For suppose he condemned many even of the new and expensive schools just built, and all by a stroke of the pen! A school doctor it was supposed should pronounce on questions of heating, lighting, ventilation, sanitation. So far his duties were something like a plumber's! Over and above this he would have something to do in preventing the spread of infectious disease! Such were the duties of a school doctor according to public opinion even in Germany in what is now called the "pre-Wiesbaden epoch" (Vor Wiesbadener Epoche).

Wiesbaden, famous as a watering place, famous once also as a gambling den, was destined to make for itself a new kind of renown. Situated on the slope of Mount Taunus, surrounded by fertile valleys, wooded hills, and villages bright with gardens and vineyards, furnished too with hot springs, Wiesbaden draws thousands of sufferers every summer to breathe its mild and yet bracing air. The town has been a kind of shrine of health always. Perhaps the sight of the invalids arriving in a constant stream urged the educational authorities to save their own townspeople from suffering by making every school a kind of health centre. Perhaps the people, who number many boarding-house keepers, wanted to