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cinematographic projections , and it is towards combating this phenomenon that the efforts of all those institutions are directed which are occupied with the protection of the moral and physical welfare of children.
Taking the positive answers from among the 19661 replies to the questions, we find that in all Italy 2102 (= 10.6 %) complain of some form of moral fatigue. These replies are grouped as follows:
Large towns Smaller localities
Boys Girls Boys Girls
1072 678 224 128
11.61% 12.30% 6.93% 7-62%
These figures, like those already examined, enable us to formulate certain observations.
1. Complaints of moral fatigue are fewer than of other kinds of fatigue. The relation is as follows:
FATIGUE
Visual
Physical
Cerebral
Moral
649O
2831
2142
2102
33-03 %
14.44 °/c
10.80 %
IO.69 %
2. As with other forms of fatigue, the complaints proceed in a higher proportion from girls than from boys.
3. Once again, the contribution of large towns towards moral fatigue is larger than that of smaller localities.
Other conclusions suggested by the replies on this score are the following:
As in the case of brain-fatigue, technical classes and classical schools,
the students of which are intellectually more developed, furnish a higher
percentage of moral fatigue cases than elementary and vocational classes;
As between the three age-groups, the two older naturally yield a
larger proportion of victims of mental fatigue than the youngest group.
Once more we must repeat in this connection that the phenomenon coincides in the main with the physical growth of young persons and corresponds to the increased strain which normal physiological development places upon the human organism. At the same time, moral fatigue in every case accompanies a certain state of mind and degree of psychical maturity. It is the older children who are the better able to estimate the worth of the films they are shown and who can therefore furnish us with the material by which to judge the good or the ha^m they derive from film projections.