§ SIR JOHN LENG (Dundee)To ask the Secretary for Scotland whether the Scottish Education Department has received a statement from any members of the medical profession, who, in view of the serious physical and moral conditions of degeneracy and disease resulting from the neglect and infraction of the elementary laws of hygiene, desire the Board of Education to consider whether it would be possible to include in the curricula, both of elementary and secondary schools, such teaching as may lead the young to appreciate the value of healthful physical conditions; and whether he will state the intentions of the Department with regard to this representation.
(Answered by MR. A. Graham Murray.) No representation answering to the description of the hon. Member has been received by the Scotch Education Department. But the subject has been frequently brought before the Department, and is now occupying their attention. I cannot commit the Department to any particular course of action in reply to a Question.