Compulsory Education In The 1920's

Education
Not many people attended school in the 1800s, and the teachers themselves were often uneducated and untrained. It wasn’t until 1854 the first ragged (public) schools were established in Sydney, for the people who couldn’t pay the fees for the “national” schools, independent schools and religious denomination schools. Because schooling wasn’t compulsory, parents chose whether their children went to school and for how long. It was a belief of the time that it was more important for boys to go to school than girls. The main subjects learnt in school were reading, writing, arithmetic, history, geography and grammar. Compulsory education was introduced in the 1870s and was difficult to enforce. Universities were not well attended because
In 1859, the NSW Cricket Association was established.Professional sculling (rowing) races started in NSW during the 1850s.One of the first sporting activities organised was horse racing, the first country racing club was established at Wallabadah in 1852. Childhood games, nursery rhymes and songs were typical of those used in England such as 'Bye Baby Bunting', 'Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush' and 'He Loves Me, He Loves Me
There was no immunity, and few medical remedies against imported diseases such as tuberculosis, smallpox, measles, chickenpox, cholera, whooping cough and influenza, among others. On 9 May 1803 Governor King, whom was troubled with the possibility of a smallpox epidemic in the colony being transferred by seafarers visiting the ports, indicted to Lord Hobart in London requesting that a vaccine be developed and dispatched. At the time smallpox was the only disease for which there was a vaccine and a modicum of the vaccine had been brought to the colony by surgeons on the First Fleet. However, this vaccine was not available to Indigenous people. Disease ravished Aboriginal communities. It is believed that smallpox killed over half the Aboriginal population in these early years, categorically affecting the very puerile and elderly members of Indigenous communities across the country as it moved beyond the frontier. In 1804, John Savage carried out the first smallpox inoculations of the non-Indigenous community after another consignment of the vaccine arrived on the convoy ship Coromandel. Tuberculosis broke out in the colony in 1805 resulting in many deaths. The most prevalent form attacks the lungs with symptoms being flushed cheeks, effulgent ocular perceivers, pyrexia, loss of appetite and a sedulous cough, which in the latter stages engenders blood. Due to the primitive erudition regarding