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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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he Board of Education, schoolnurses assist the physician in the examination of children, andseek to promote the health and well-being of the children in thedistrict.3 With the nurses, even more than with the physicians, thequestion of personality is of extreme importance. Not only mustthe nurse have great tact and judgment in her intimate dealingswith the families of her district, but she must be supremely inter-ested in the sociological side of the problem with which she hasto deal. She must be not only a woman of judgment, executive )See Appendix C. 2Because of the rapidly increasing amount of interest in public health work,it is probable that the time has arrived when it is possible to obtain full-time physicianswho might be more specially trained for school health work, and who, because of theirfull-time service, would take a deeper interest in the work. Eight full-time employeeswould give much more efficient service than is given under the present arrangement. •-See Appendix D.
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< 4 KEEPING THE CHILDREN WELL power and professional expertness, but one whose intelligenceis well balanced by humanistic impulses and a supreme desire tohelp. Her duties often include early morning inspection for pos-sible contagious disease; emergency treatment of pupils who maybe injured in or about the school premises ; assistance to the schoolphysician in making physical examinations; visits to the homesof children who have been absent three days, such visit oftendeveloping the fact that they are ill with contagious disease orare truants; taking of pupils, at the request of parents, to thefree dispensary for treatment; bathing of children where properfacilities for cleansing outside the school may be lacking ;l visitsto homes to explain to parents the need for glasses or for the cor-rection of other physical defects, or to persuade parents to send apupil to some one of the special classes or to the open air school,or to persuade them to make greater efforts towards cleanlinesskeepingchildrenw00minn

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