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 diseased children act at once on the advice offered. Only 3&middot;5 per cent neglect a second warning. In some cities—in Mulhausen and Berlin at least—they (the parents) are invited to the conferences of teachers and doctors. Schubart sums up the position by saying: "Of any serious objection on the part of parents to the school doctor nothing is heard."

What is the result of medical inspection? We may perhaps ask the question of Wiesbaden, since Wiesbaden has attempted to do the work so thoroughly. She has a population of only 86,000. Yet Wiesbaden has seven school doctors for her nine or ten thousand children, whereas London has twenty or twenty-one doctors, but nearly all of them are not even half-timers, but give only a quarter of their time to the half a million of children in her schools. The countries who have hesitated long will want, then, to ask the question: What is the result of all your courage and labour? The answer seems, briefly, to be as follows:—

In a matter of this kind results on paper, if fully and accurately worked, would have a great value. But no one can pretend that these can be had in a moment. To begin with, there is no standard of comparison between children to-day who