School hygiene / by Robert A. Lyster.

  • Robert Arthur Lyster
Date:
W.B. Clive, University Tutorial Press,
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    EXTEACTS FEOM THE MEMOEANDUM ON MEDICAL INSPECTION OF CHILDEEN Under Section 13 of the Education (Administrative Provisions) Act, 1907. [Issued by the Board of Education, November 1907.] The Board are convinced that the work of medical inspection cannot be properly accomplished by medical men without assistance. The teacher, the school nurse (where such exists), and the parents or guardians of the child mnst heartily co-operate with the school medical officer. In whatever way the system be organised, its success will depend, immediately and ultimately, upon the cordial sympatliy and assistance of the teachers From what has been said it will be clear that the fundamental principle of Section 13 of the new Act is the medical examination and supervision not only of children known, or suspected, to be weakly or ailing, bnt of all childi-en in the elementary schools, with a view to adapting and modifying the system of education to the needs and capacities of the child, secm-ing the early detection of unsuspected defects, checking incipient maladies at their onset, and furnishing the facts which will guide Education Authorities in relation to physical and mental development during school life It cannot be doubted that a large proportion of the common diseases and physical unfitness in this country can be substantially diminished by effective public health administration, combined with the teaching of hygiene and a realisation by teachers, parents, and children of its vital importance