The school nurse : her duties and responsibilities / by C. Louis Leipoldt.

  • C. Louis Leipoldt
Date:
1912
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Credit: The school nurse : her duties and responsibilities / by C. Louis Leipoldt. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    HER DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES CHAPTER I THE SCHOOL NURSE The history of the school nurse is the history of the medical inspection of school children. Without going as far back as the Middle Ages, when more than one medical and educational authority had the wisdom, unshared of the age, to declare that a healthy mind was in the majority of cases dependent on a healthy body, it is worth while pointing out that such inspection is not a twentieth-century novelty. In the early part of the nineteenth century, the question of the medical inspection of school children was receiving the serious attention of many thoughtful educationists, who saw that it was foolish and unreasonable to expect from physically and mentally defective children the same results in education and training which could be de- manded from healthy children. With the advent of compulsory elementary education, this feeling became accentuated. There was already in existence, in France, a well-defined scheme for the medical inspection of schools, which had been laid before the National Con- vention in 1783 by the Abbe Sieyes, and which provided for the appointment of special school medical officers, who were required to visit all the schools in their district and report on the condition of the children. In the early part of the nineteenth century the military acad- emies of France and Germany had special school doctors attached to them, but it was not until the end of the third
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