Excerpt from Backward Children in the Public Schools: With a Preliminary Study on the Relation of Physical to Mental Defects in School ChildrenThe age of our race between 6 and 15 years is a distinctive one, from the fact that the problem of diet, so important in infancy, decreases with the corresponding increase in bodily activity. 50, also, the prevalence and effect of contagious disease suffer a reduction. For these reasons the mortality rate decreases progressively, and the probability. Of survival becomes steadily brighter.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.