ABSTRACT
The care of convalescents has become one of the minor objects of the Guild, and the cooperative movement, as a whole, is directing some attention to the same subject. In 1897 what almost amounted to a campaign on the Public Health Laws was undertaken, while the abiding interest shown in questions of factory legislation turns largely on the supreme importance of health. In connection with health teaching, and the preservation of health as a personal, a civic, and a national obligation, the claims of the children are paramount, for the rates of infant mortality are to-day the great blot upon the vital statistics of the country. The general health standard of the family will tend to be driven upwards, for it will be recognized that those of every age may and should share in this first blessing of full bodily development.
