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What Were the Schoolbooks Like?
Hygiene Books
Hygiene for Young People: A Reader for Pupils in Form III of the Public Schools by A.P. Knight. Toronto: Copp Clark, 1909
This health reader was intended for students aged 10 or 11.
“... Surely our schoolrooms should be swept and dusted once a day, and washed three or four times a week.” and “... some school-houses are much harder to keep clean than others. That is quite true. Old school-houses in which the floors are full of gaping cracks - uneven, rough and generally made of pine boards - it is almost impossible to keep such floors clean. The dust of many feet has filled the cracks full, and the broom in sweeping, raises this dust again into the air.” p.198
This health reader was intended for students aged 10 or 11.
“... Surely our schoolrooms should be swept and dusted once a day, and washed three or four times a week.” and “... some school-houses are much harder to keep clean than others. That is quite true. Old school-houses in which the floors are full of gaping cracks - uneven, rough and generally made of pine boards - it is almost impossible to keep such floors clean. The dust of many feet has filled the cracks full, and the broom in sweeping, raises this dust again into the air.” p.198
