DR. FARQUHARSONI beg to ask the Vice President of the Committee of Council on Education whether he has yet received any reports from his Inspectors regarding the alleged increase of short sight in the children attending public elementary schools?
§ * SIR W. HART DYKEAs the Inspectors have no previously ascertained data upon which to form a comparative judgment upon the point, a considerable time would necessarily elapse before they could be expected to give an opinion; but the matter has not been lost sight of, and I hope it may be possible to secure some reliable information in connection with it.