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Show HEALTH MOVEMENT IN CITY Washington School Children Given Circulars Telling How to Prevent Pre-vent Disease. " a An elaborate health movement will be started In Washington, D. C, In the near future when more than fifty thousand children of the grade and high schools will be given circulars telling In simple Innguuge how to take care of themselves end prevent diseases to which, It has been found by Investigation, school children arc peculiarly subject. The movement will aim primarily to prevent dliicasea which are du mainly to neglect and bad habits. Co-optratlon between parents, chll dren, teachers, school officials and family physicians will be assured In this way, It Is hoped, with the restili of a better physical Juvenile Wash Ington. Furthermore, In endeavorinj to obtain the co-operation of the fam lly physician, copies of the clrculai have been sent to more than ont thousand members of the medical ft a ternlty of tho district, with personal letters asking their aid in the move ment. "The circulars, printed as they ar In simple language, entirely free from technicalities, will form easy reading matter for the children, llocnuse ol the simplicity of the circulars, It It hoped by those who are Interested In the movement that they will b "talked over," paragraph by para graph, and word by word. In slxl) thousand homes. In spite of the fact that the keynou of the pamphlet la simplicity, the lat rst scientific discoveries and data com piled on the prevention of dlseasi have been embodied In the four pagei of the circular. |