Health and the school; a round table . s true that we have thus far investigated only oneschool, our purpose being to develop experimentally amodel for further work in the entire school system; butthe Washington school which we chose is typical of allthe other schools in town, apd for that matter probablyof schools throughout the country wherever communi-ties have been as backward in school health matters aswe have. 12 HEALTH CENSUS OF A SCHOOL 13 Dr. Latta.—That means almost sixty per cent, of ourcities, and even more of our country communities. Miss Parsons.—The actual work of examining thec
Health and the school; a round table . s true that we have thus far investigated only oneschool, our purpose being to develop experimentally amodel for further work in the entire school system; butthe Washington school which we chose is typical of allthe other schools in town, apd for that matter probablyof schools throughout the country wherever communi-ties have been as backward in school health matters aswe have. 12 HEALTH CENSUS OF A SCHOOL 13 Dr. Latta.—That means almost sixty per cent, of ourcities, and even more of our country communities. Miss Parsons.—The actual work of examining thechildren was doneby three of our bestknown and mosttrusted careful con-sultation they de-cided exactly whatstandards of healthto follow, just whatdefects to look a number ofcases all three phy-sicians examined thesame child, to makesure that all wereaccurately observingthe same mention the con-scientious caretaken by these phy-sicians to make itpossible for you tobelieve their incredi-ble PHYSICAL RATING OF 20,000,000SCHOOL CHILDREN IN THE UNITED STATES. The dark section represents 12,000,000children (60%) who have defects soserious as to interfere materially withtheir physical growth and to retardtheir school progress by from 6 to15 per cent. The shaded sectionrepresents 4,000,000 children (20%)who have less serious defects. Thewhite section represents 4,000,000children (20%) who are physicallysound. [According to data publishedby the Russell Sage Foundation.) The general; re-sult of the investigation you have already heard. Almostnine out of every ten children in the Washington schoolwere found in need of treatment. There is, however, avery hopeful side to this dark picture. Most of the de-fects we found can readily be corrected. Intelligence intheir detection and treatment, and, most of all, in their 14 HEALTH AND THE SCHOOL prevention, can easily free the children from them, andkeep them free. That makes our duty toward these
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