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Title: Keeping the children well: medical inspection;
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Minneapolis Public Schools. Board of Education Keene, Charles Herbert, 1875- (from old catalog)
Subjects: School hygiene
Publisher: Minneapolis
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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ease, both in routine inspection workand in the classroom inspection which is held whenever it is feltthat the conditions are such as to warrant special care and pre-cautions. In 1909-10, there were 2,765 exclusions for contagious dis-ease in six months of the school year. This indicates a contagiousdisease rate for that year of approximately 10 per cent; that is,one child in ten in the schools had some contagious disease. Inthe last three years, this has averaged only 6 per cent a year. The amount of contagious disease is diminished secondly,because certain persons are much more careful about sendingtheir children to school when there is any possibility of their iOf course, this amount of dental service is wholly inadequate for a schoolsystem of fifty thousand pupils. There should be at least three full-time dental clinics.If there were three, one should be located at the Blaine School, one on the East Sideand one in South Minneapolis. Three would cost $5,000 a year. 2See Appendix E.
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HEALTH SUPERVISION \) having contagious disease. This often results in obtaining propermedical help in the home when a child is attacked with an acuteillness, so that not only is a certain amount of contagious diseaseprevented, but the children are given proper care at the onset ofdisease, this proper care often meaning the difference betweena permanent defect and a normal child, between recovery and notrecovery. Then, too, the number of physical examinations which arebeing made and the number of physical defects which are beingcalled to the attention of the parents result in cutting down theamount of physical defects found in the schools. This diminu-tion is brought about largely in two ways; first, by the removal ofdefects found by the school physician; second, as the parent isaroused to self-help, by the removal of defects early in life beforethe child reaches the school physician. So one finds for the lastfive years a steadily diminishing percentage of children havingdefects. This

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