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Show Results. of Stuffed Knowledge. Seven per cent of the girl graduates -of training train-ing schools in Xew -York City who "qualify To become be-come teachers in the public schools are found to be suffering from practically incurable ailments as a result of too heavy a 'course of study. Dr. Elizabeth Eliza-beth Jarrett, medical 'examiner for the board of education, is authority for this statement. ''One hundred and1 fifty of the COO "girls sent to me for physical examination this spring. had to be held over for re-examination this fall because Ihey were found to have some form of heart, trouble, incipient kidney disease or anaemia." said Dr. -lar-nelt today. '"These are not inherited diseases. Many of them, as examinal ions have, proved, have been brought on by the nervous tax of three; mental examination? ex-amination? the slate superintendent's, city superintendent's super-intendent's and training school 'superintendent's ---which they must pass iirorder to obtain a teacher's . certificate.- .. . ' v . . '"When I say that 7!por cent oi the "girls turned out of training schools1, have, become incurably diseased," dis-eased," said Dr. Barrett, "I speak conservatively. 1 find well developed' cases ' of Bright V disease, spinal curvature, some; -tuberculosis, "and I came across one case of goitre. Some of these girls come back for several years to be examined over again in the hope of improvement, but usually we find the same thing. It was ifie school work that sent them on the downward path of disease: They M ere placed under a pressure of w-ork such as no girl of IS should undergo, silch' "sfraiit as comes upon a business man of 40: ' .' ' .' ' '"'' "Many of the girls lelj me that, during the last year of their course llidy sat up until 12 o'clock every night. Xo career is worth that'and there is no need for, such strain.'" ' 1 'x |