Physiological aspects of the liquor problem / investigations made by and under the direction of W. O. Atwater, John S. Billings [and others] sub-committee of the Committee of fifty to investigate the liquor problem.

  • Billings, John S. (John Shaw), 1838-1913
Date:
1903
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Credit: Physiological aspects of the liquor problem / investigations made by and under the direction of W. O. Atwater, John S. Billings [and others] sub-committee of the Committee of fifty to investigate the liquor problem. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    study not included in the certificate. A record shall be kept of all examinations made, and the names, ages, and residences, with the date and result thereof. Sec. 2737. The superintendent shall revoke the certificate of any teacher who shall fail or neglect to comply with the provisions of law relating to the teaching of physiology and hygiene, and such teachers shall be disqualified for teaching in any public school for one year thereafter. 26 G. A. ch. 39 ; 21 G. A. ch. 1, sec. 3. Sec. 2739. The county superintendent shall annually, on the first Tuesday in October, make a report to the superintendent of public in- struction, giving a full abstract of the several reports made to him by the secretaries and treasurers of school boards, stating the manner in and the extent to which the requirements of the law regarding in- struction in physiology and hygiene are observed, and such other matters as he may be directed by the state superintendent to include therein, or he may think important in showing actual conditions of the schools in his county. Sec. 2740. The county superintendent shall see that all provisions of the school law, so far as it relates to the schools or school officers within his county, are observed and enforced, specially those relating to . . . the introduction and teaching of such divisions of physiology and hygiene as relate to the effects of alcohol, stimulants, and narcotics upon the human system, and to this end he may require the assistance of the county attorney, who shall at his request bring any action neces- sary, to enforce the law or recover penalties incurred. Sec. 2775. [The board of directors] shall require all teachers to give and all scholars to receive instruction in physiology and hygiene, which study in every division of the subject shall include the effects upon the human system of alcoholic stimulants, narcotics, and poison- ous substances. The instruction in this branch shall of its kind be as direct and specific as that given in other essential branches, and each scholar shall be required to complete a part of such study in his class or grade before being advanced to the next higher, and before being credited with having completed the study of the subject. [For prior legislation, see act approved February 17, 1886. Laws of 1886, ch. 1.] KANSAS. Act approved March 4, 1885. Laws of 1885, ch. 169 (General Statutes, 1897, ch. 63, § 206). Sec. 1. No certificate shall be granted to any person to teach in any of the public schools of this State after the first day of January, 1886, who has not passed a satisfactory examination in the elements