Chap. 55.—An ACT to amend and re-enact section 702 of the Code of Virginia.
[H B 68]
Approved February 25, 1922.

1. Be it enacted by the general assembly of Virginia, That sec-
tion seven hundred and two of the Code of Virginia be amended and
re-enacted to read as follows:

Sec. 702. What to be taught in schools—In every public free
school shall be taught orthography, reading, wnitting, arithmetic,
grammar, geography, physiology and hygiene, civil government,
drawing, history of the United States, and history of Virginia. In
teaching physiology and hygiene approved text-books shall be used,
plainly setting forth the effects of alcohol and other narcotics on the
human system, and such effects shall be as fully and thoroughly
taught as are other branches of the said last named subjects. Each
teacher shall devote not less than thirty minutes in each month of the
school session instructing the pupils therein as to ways and means of
proper observations in connection with the course in civics and citizen-
ship, so as to prevent accidents and in connection with the same
course, and may devote not less than one hour in each month of the
school session in instructing the pupils in the ways and means of
preventing loss and damage to lives and property through preventable
fires, and the State board of education shall provide a regular course
of study in fire prevention for use in the public schools.

Provision shall further be made for moral education in the public
schools to be extended throughout the entire course. Such instruction
shall be imparted by reading ,books and text-books inculcating the
virtues of a pure and noble life. The text-books shall be selected
as are other text-books by the State board of education.