Show I SWEATERS CAUSE SICKNESS I School Official Believes Wearing of Garment leads to Colds nnd Diphtheria Philadelphia Fa Nov 15It is my r llrm opinion chat to the wearing of sweaters sweat-ers by pupils and tho failure to change the garments when they become wet from perspiration thereby producing colds and I I other ailments is largely due the spread I nf diphtheria in tho public schools and i similar Institutions of the city I I have done considerable Investigation I in tills matter and from my conversation conversa-tion with a number of the teachers and liter a visit to the children in the schools I 1 r am led to make this I statement I think ft nl t haf V It 1 is a matter that affects the vital inter I I I stfi of uiTrents and their children and i should be givfcn careful consideration by the Board of Health authorities This statement was made yesterday by Thomas S Martin secretary of the Board of Park Commissioners and a member of I the Tent tourth Sectional School i Board Mr Martin said that it was through his instrumentality that the communication com-munication relative to the prohibition of wearing sweaters in the classrooms was brought to the attention of the Board of Education which referred the subject to the committee on hygiene for Investigation Investiga-tion BOY SLEPT IX HIS SWEATER During my visits to tho schools continued con-tinued Mr Martin I Invariably found the pupils who were suffering from colds and hacking coughs to be victims of the sweater habit I have found as many as I ten boys In one class wearing oweatcra and ono boy admitted that he had even j slept In his 1 dont mean to say that a pupil should come to school in a dress I suit or suIt hat but the sweater should I ho discarded Of course the parents of I come of the boys are poor but they can purchase a shirt for about Ifi or 20 cents I I At the Haverford combined higher grade grammar school for boys and girl Thlr rvfifth and Havcrford avenue the teach < Irt were outspoken In their condemnation Jf the sweater evil I WORE ONE FOR THREE YEARS Miss Helen B Livingston the acting supervising principal paid that tho wearing wear-ing of sweaters had a tendency to produce In the pupils careless and slouchy habits hab-its as well as unclosnllncss 1 know rtf one boy who has been wearing a blue and red sweater for the last three years she added and when tho other tcachern were appealed to they substantiated this statement William L Welsh supervising principal of the Belmont combined grammar and primary school Fortyfirst and Brown rtrcetK anscmblcd the puplln yesterday morning and after pointing out the dan gcr lurking in the sweater habit advised the disuse of the garment by the boys while in the claRsiooms |