On the hours of sleep at public schools : based on an inquiry into the arrangements existing in forty of the great public schools in England, and others in the U.S.A. : a paper read before the Association on May 11, 1905 / by T.D. Acland.

  • Acland, Theodore Dyke, 1851-1931.
Date:
1905
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Credit: On the hours of sleep at public schools : based on an inquiry into the arrangements existing in forty of the great public schools in England, and others in the U.S.A. : a paper read before the Association on May 11, 1905 / by T.D. Acland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    26 American Schools with which I have been put into com*- munication, through the kindness of Professor W. Osier,1 the approved hours are given to the,younger boys, namely, 9J- to 10 ; and further, four of the headmasters of these schools have stated quite emphatically that these hours are desirable for the well-being of the boys. Fifty medical experts, medical officers of schools and others, have expressed a decided opinion that ample hours of sleep are needful for growing boys. Amongst these are included all in this country who. (as far as I can ascertain) have written definitely in standard works on the question of Sleep : Sir James Crichton Browne, Dr. Clement Dukes, Professor Brad- bury, Dr. Hyslop, Professor McKendrick, and Professor Sherrington, and besides these there are many whose names are honoured in English medicine and whose opinions cannot be disregarded on such a question as this. Such are Sir William Broadbent, Sir Thomas Barlow, Sir Lauder Brunton, Sir Dyce Duckworth, Professor Clifford Allbutt (Cambridge), Professor Osier (Oxford), Dr. Collier, Dr. Dickinson, Dr. Goodhart, Dr. Savage, Dr. Eustace Smith, besides fifteen Medical Officers of the most celebrated Public Schools in England. It would be impossible to enumerate all, but the list includes many who have made a special study of diseases of children, and disorders of the nervous system, as well as those who have specially considered the subject in relation to modern education. Twenty-seven have given .the number of hours which they consider best, the remainder do not definitely specify the number of hours but speak emphatically in more general terms. ■ Professor W. Osier, M.D., D.Sc., F.R.S., Regius Professor of Medicine in the University of Oxford, Late Professor of Medicine Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, U.S.A.