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 \nLondon  \n# COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY LIBRARIESPRESERVATION DIVISIONBIBLIOGRAPHIC MICROFORM TARGET\n\nORIGINAL MATERIAL AS FILMED·EXISTING BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD  \nReproductions may not be made without permisslon trom Columbia Universlty Libraries.                 \nRESTRICTIONS ON USE:  \nTECHNICAL MICROFORM DATA  \nFILM SIZE:          35mmREDUCTION RATIO:          9:/  \nMAGE PLACEMENT:IA(IIA  \nIIB  \nDATE FILMED:                    4-30-97INITIALS:          如  \nTRACKING\\#:                                                                                              23631  \nFILMED BY PRESERVATION RESOURCES,BETHLEHEM,PA.  \n080x223   \n## CHILDREN FIRST!\n\nDinner at a Nursery School.  \n## LABOUR’S ]POLICYDESCRIBED.\n\nONE PENNY.  \nPUBLISHED BYThe Labour Party,Transport House,Smith Square,London,S.W.1.  \n## CHILDREN FIRST.\n\nHE Labour Party can never be satisfied with socialconditions which permit hunger,cold,sickness andl                -     L             1tf lit+le childran Theirunhappiness as the common lot of little children.Theirneed for happy and healthy surroundings are a fist claimupon us all.When Labour speakers have waxed hot andindignant over the children's wrongs,their opponents haveoften accused them of uttering sentimental“sob-stuff”togain cheap popularity.Our reply to all such accusations isthat only the welfare of the nation's children can satisfy bothour common humanity and our commonsense.We are not  \nQUANTITY PRICES  \ngd.per doz.post free.  \n6/-per Ioo carriage paid.  \nFrom the  \nLABOUR PUBLICATIONs DEPT,Transport House,(S.Block,)Smith Square,London,S.W.I.  \nChelsea:Oratory Infants'School,Gallery Classroom,I905.(8ee lust page.)  \nashamed of our indignation;we admit that we may often see“red”when we think of the waste and cruelty which con-demn so many children to preventable sickness,ignorance,hunger and cold.Our policy for childhood,set forth veryshortly in these pages,is directed to that most important ofpolitical aims,making the zworld safe for the coming generation.  \n3  \n## A CHILDREN’S MEDICAL SERVICE.\n\nNine out of ten children are born healthy;yet onechild in three admitted to school has some serious defectwhich,by timely treatment,could have been prevented orcured.“Year by year,”the Chief Medical Officer of theBoard of Education tells us,\"there is a steady and undimin-ishing stream of physical defect and impairment of the entrantscoming into the schools at five years of age.”A recentenquiry into the conditions of I,0oo children under threeshowed that nearly one-half were suffering from rickets inone degree or another,nearly one-third from enlarged tonsils,about one-quarter from dental decay.We are only in a smalldegree checking disease;?we are not stopping the stream atits source.  \nThe trouble is that,while Local*Health Authorities haveconsiderable powers to do what is necessary for children underschool age,they are not bound to use them.Nor have theybeen encouraged to do so by the Tory policy of restrictingexpenditure on social services.Some authorities do nothing  \nLittle Children undergoing a course of sun treatment on the roof.  \nat all.Most do much less than they could.None do all.Though the Chief Medical Officer has solemnly warnedauthorities that the policy of withholding \"from little childrenthe medical and surgical treatment of which they stand sourgently in need will be paid for dearly in years to come,the Tory Government actually proposes to abolish the presentincentive to progress which secures them the repayment(out ofnational funds)of one half the local expenditure.The truenational economy is to save these very young children frompreventable disease.  \nLabour zoould make it the statutory duty of authorities toorganise an eficient medical service for children from the earliestage,which zoould be available for the mother in the home andinclude every kind of specialist treatment zwhich can prevent orcure disease.  \n## NURSERY SCHOOLS.\n\nPoor children,as we","cbCaikFwwAlScuo0","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaikFwwAlScuo0","pdf",718030,"English","# CHILDREN FIRST!\n## LABOUR’S POLICY DESCRIBED.\n## A CHILDREN’S MEDICAL SERVICE.\n## NURSERY SCHOOLS.\n## OPEN AIR RECOVERY SCHOOLS.","[{\"question\":\"What problem does the Children First! 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