This is part of the very elements of the education of girls.

To disregard it should disqualify a teacher from taking further share in educational work.

Yet it is constantly and persistently neglected.

A large number of girls have not even been prepared by their mothers or teachers for the first onset of the menstrual flow, sometimes with disastrous results both to their bodily and mental health.[26] "I know of no large girl's school," wrote a distinguished gynaecologist, Sir W.S.Playfair ("Education and Training of Girls at Puberty," _British Medical Journal_, Dec.

7, 1895), "in which the absolute distinction which exists between boys and girls as regards the dominant menstrual function is systematically cared for and attended to.