Education and Art in Soviet Russia/Document 15

DOCUMENT No. 15

A Provision

adopted at the joint session of the United School and School-Sanitary Board, July 10th, 1918.

The science of hygiene must permeate our school instruction and bringing-up of children, beginning with the first hours of their school attendance. Instruction in hygiene received in primary schools is completed in the higher grades through a course of lectures delivered by the school physician. Hygiene, as a bio-social science, should be taught in the last year of secondary schooling. Here hygiene should be superseded by instructions in the physiology and anatomy of man.

Hygiene should be taught by a physician.

Commissary of School-Sanitary Department.

 

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