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The boys and girls who have strong, healthy bodies are going to be a great help to the United States Government in the coming years. In the first place, health will make it possible for them to work harder and play harder, in this way gaining more health. Another very important reason for taking good care of your bodies is to gave your mothers and fathers from wasting money in buying medicines and paying doctors’ bills.

Every city in the United States has a Board of Health. This is because there are certain conditions in a community, no matter how small, that may cause sickness. These Boards of Health watch the schools, the streets, and the rivers for any disease dangers, and do all that lies in their power to prevent contagion. If every family, though, and every child in every family were careful about the very simple hygienic matters that the Board of Health has to watch, the community would be a safer, better place in which to live. It isn’t enough to keep well oneself. We ought Rh