Unidentified Rural Swiss School: Fresh Air and Sunshine (1929)


Figure 1.-- One concern associated with gym and sports in Switzerland is getting children outside in the fresh air and sunshine. We notice an unidentified rural school moving children to open air classes in the 1920s. Notice the sun hats the children are wearing. They also seem to have uniforms. That was not common at Swiss schools. Perhaps this is a private school. And the older boys seem to be wearing romper pants without shirts or socks as a gym uniform. This 1929 magazine item was captioned, "What the doctor is doing: The boys in this picture are carrying their school desks up to a spot on the mountainside where they will spend the day at their lessons in the healing sun and air. Sun bathing has become increasingly important during the last few years." The doctor in question was Dr. Rollier. We are not sure what magazine in which this appeared. Put your cursor on the image for a better look at the open air class the girls are having. They are wearing Britiush style gymslips.

One concern associated with gym and sports in Switzerland is getting children outside in the fresh air and sunshine. We notice an unidentified rural school moving children to open air classes in the 1920s (figure 1). Notice the sun hats the children are wearing. They also seem to have uniforms. That was not common at Swiss schools. Perhaps this is a private school. And the older boys seem to be wearing romper pants without shirts or socks as a gym uniform. We are not sure whow common this was. The believe in freah air abd sunshine was widespread in Switzerland. We are less sure about the steps that schools took to make sure the children got a dose of sunshine. Some schools participated in summer camp programs. The American summer camp movement also focused on the idea of getting kids out into the freh air and sunhine. The believe in the healthful atributes of fresh air, rest and good food would also lead to the 'Swiss system' in treating early cases of tuberculosis. A HBC reader tells us about growing up in a small village where his father worked at a sanitorium. There were quite a number of these sanitoriums in Switzeland, located in beautiful unpoluted rural site in the mountains. They lso stressed the healful benefits of fresh air and sunshine.








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