The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-06-15
SCHOOL PHYSICIANS' BILL. TEXT OF MEASURE. Leaves It Optional With Towns Whether to Appoint
 Doctors or Not.

The text of the bill providing for the optional appointment of school physi- cians which recently passed the sen- ate is as follows:
 Section 1. The board of school visi- tors, board of educations or town school committee of any town, or the board of education or committee of any school district, may appoint one or more school physicians and assign one to any public school within the limits of such town or school district, and shall provide such school physicians, when l so appointed with proper facilities for the performance of their duties. Sec. ?. Every school physician so ap- pointed shall make a prompt examina- tion of all children referred to him as examina ton of teachers, janitors, and school building as in his opinion the protection of the health of the pupils may require,
 1 Sec. 3. The superintendent, principal or teacher of any school to which 3 school physician has been assigned as hereinbefore provided shall refer to such physician every child returning to the school without a permit from the health officer or board of health, after absence on account of illness or from unknown cause, and every child att tending such school who appears to be in i'll health, or Is suspected to be sick with any contagious or infectious dis ease, unless such child be immediately excluded from such schools under the provisions of the general statutes or the sanitary regulations in force in said town or district provided, that iii case of schools in remote and isolated loca- tions the school committee may make such other arrangements as may be advisable to carry out the purposes of this act.
 Sec. {. The school authorities of any town or school district which has ap- pointed a school physician in accord ance with the provisions of this act shall cause every child attending the public. schools therein to be separately and carefully tested and examined at least once in every school year to as- certain whether such child is suffering from defective sight or hearing, or i from any other physical disability tend | ing to prevent such child from receiv- l ing the full benefit of school work, or l requiring modification of such school
 work In order to prevent injury to the
 child or to secure the best education l al results.
 Sec. 5. Notice of the disease or defect I if any, from which any child is found 1 by such school physician to be suffer- ing shall be given to the parent or
 guardian of such child with such ad-
 vice or order relating thereto as said ] physician may deem advisable, and
 whenever any child shows symptoms of any contagious or infectious disease notice shall also be given to the health
 officer or board of health and such child 1 may be excluded from attendance at such school in accordance with the pro .l visions of the general statutes or the j sanitary regulations in force in the l town or district.
 I Sec, 6. Whenever the board of schoo Al YlSIlOTS or lOWIl SCflOOI 'Ol duS 7l town, or the board of education or dis a trict committee of any school district I shall have appointed a school physi.
 clan as provided in section one of thi:
 act, said board or committee may also
 appoint a matron or nurse who shal
 take such action, under the direction
 of the school physician, as may b,
 necessary for safeguarding the healtl
 of the pupils and teachers of th'
 schools. Such matron or nurse shall al
 so act, under the direction of the schoo ,l physician as a visiting nurse in tn
 town or school district, shall visit tn homes of pupils in the public schools
 and shall assist in executing the order of the school physician.
 Sec. '. The expenses incurred unde
 the provisions of this act shall be pait
 in the same manner as are the ordin
 ary expenses for the support of school
 in the several towns and school dis d triets.