The rural teacher and his work in community leadership, in school administration, and in mastery of the school subjects . better illustration can be given to show the impor-tance of medical inspection of school children than thisstatement of the corrective results in the case of a single ruralpupil in Pennsylvania: She was positively stupid in her recitations and wasfailing in her the report ofthe medical inspectorof our school she wasoperated on in ourlocal hospital, andnotwithstanding herloss of time, she com-pleted with ease twoyears work in lessthan one years time ;proving that
The rural teacher and his work in community leadership, in school administration, and in mastery of the school subjects . better illustration can be given to show the impor-tance of medical inspection of school children than thisstatement of the corrective results in the case of a single ruralpupil in Pennsylvania: She was positively stupid in her recitations and wasfailing in her the report ofthe medical inspectorof our school she wasoperated on in ourlocal hospital, andnotwithstanding herloss of time, she com-pleted with ease twoyears work in lessthan one years time ;proving that a brightmentality can befogged by specialconditions that canbe remedied. The somewhatlengthy statementsof prevailing condi-tions given above are intended to emphasize the reasonable-ness of requiring compulsory medical inspection in allschools, and to help the teacher see the urgency of the appended chart of the Joint Committee gives someidea of the progress made in medical inspection under legalsanction or requirement. The shaded states have medicalinspection under control of the boards of education or of. Medical Inspection in CH^and Country Schools Calorado J^eine J/en/Sark Itfalr Medical Inspection in Cit^ Schools Only Jfrkansas ^/rd/ana Tforrfana Oho haihme-f^n CeeneefJcut ^tm^j^ute/ts Aerffi Z>aJtafa iirmonr ildministration of Medical rnspection in Cities ?percen+oge of Cilies Report-i a^ lAVo By Board of £ducafion BySoatdsfHealH: Fig. 31. HYGIENE AND RURAL COMMUNITY SANITATION 299 the state boards of health. Nine states in all requiremedical inspection of rural schools, these being Colorado,Idaho, Maine, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York,Rhode Island, Utah, and Virginia. Even in these states theinspection is not always what might be desired. The un-inspected black area in the chart is the richest agriculturalsection of our country — the only reason that can beoffered here for neglecting this public duty is sheer heed-lessness. Assuredly, even in this area
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