Separate personal and school hygiene courses were recently introduced and remained few, short, and slowly adopted¶

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Evidence · 1 study · associational r1 · q2
Currency · newest study 1909 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? Thirteen schools offered personal hygiene courses, most adopted since 1907, and only 18 schools offered courses in school hygiene, most of recent introduction with less than 50 hours of work. → Arthur Heche 1909

Evidence¶

Arthur Heche 1909¶

Arthur Heche. (1909). A Report on the Teaching and Practice of Hygiene in the Public Normal Schools of the United States. The Journal of Educational Psychology. https://www.jstor.org/journal/jeducreducpsyc

q2 · i? · associational · r1

Questionnaire returns on hygiene course offerings. Personal hygiene courses vary from 10 to 180 hours with a central tendency of 40 to 50 hours, and nine schools require the course. "Only 18 of the schools reporting offer courses in school hygiene."

"Apparently 13 of the schools reporting are offering courses in personal hygiene, most of which have been adopted since 1907."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

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