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 were not prophesying quite truly (while medical inspection was making clear how much of all the sickness and unfitness in schools is remediable) sent their medical officer, Dr. James Kerr and the assistant educational adviser, Dr. Rose, abroad, to see and report on the school baths in Germany and Holland, and the general effect of their use on schools and children.

On their return these two travellers published a Report. In this Report they show that school baths are common abroad. Every town visited had installations for bathing children: school bathing arrangements are made, even in quite small places of three or four thousand inhabitants! In many schools 80 per cent of all the children use the school showers, but the percentage is in some places larger, in some smaller, and there are schools such as Am Zugweg at Cologne where all the children bathe. Many of these children must of course come from good homes.

There is no need to describe all the baths visited by the London officials. Many of them are described in the Report, but we need here name only one or two.

Take for example Blucher Street School, Wiesbaden. It was built in the shining light of public