Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1909-05-16
BILL PROVIDES FOR
HEALTH SUPERVISION
IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS
LOCAL SCIENTIST Is ACTIVE IN
MEASURE
Physicians Work Wonders in Correct
ina Nervous and Mental ALI
ments by OPERA
tions
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ty for clubs and parent teachers asso-
ciations-The need of the hour is the
skilled cooperation of home and school
in the intelligent rearing of children
and youths. A field of education OF
highest order exists today waiting for
more complete recognition and success
full occupation-that of the social edu-
Gator.
1t is the opportunity of parent teach
ers' associations to utilize far more ef-
fectively the forces at It's command to
lift home and school to higher Level.
To repeat: If some one had the pow
er to enter both the home and the
school and act in accordance with
health and growth needs of children
and youths in this regard the increase
of health, growth and efficiency both
of the present and the future of these
pupils can scarcely be estimated. The
highest achievements of adult life
will never be achieved until the home
and the school by intelligent and skilled
cooperation bring the health, growth
and vigor of youth to a maximum.
This most important work, vital to the
best citizenship of the future remains
yet to be done, for q considerable per-
centage of the children and youth of
the state and nation.
Results already achieved in Los An
geles are shown in the following sum
mary of health examinations reported
by Professor Leslie last year:
Total number examined, 1929 approx
innate enrollmenD; defective eyesight,
2701 go per cent?: defective hearing,
III (23 per cent?; enlarged tonsils, 1888
(36 per cent?; adenoids present. 1867
(36 per cent?; teeth more or less de-
cayed, 1856 ga per cent?; functional
heart insufticiency, 5SS III per cent?;
organic heart disease, 1871 (2ia per
/ -. Z n1,1,.
ment, 1857 go per cent?; nervous in
stability, 1878 (23 per cent?.
An approximate summary of the
seven months work of the present year
is the following:
Summary of Seven Months Work
First-Report of schools where all pupils
are examined by principals and teachers.
Number examined by principals and
| teachers 1859
| Number examined by teachers and hastily
| passed upon by examining staff and judged
as not requiring further examination 1894
40 per cent
Number undergoing physical examination
by examining STAFF 1885, so per cent.
Report of Physical Examinations
Number examined 2735. defective in eye
sight 1868, notices sent TO parents 500.
There 1865 to be watched by teachers
and examined If the pupils health school
work indicates the need of further exam
nation.
Defective In hearing s51. notices sent to
parents eighty Most of the defective
hearing is due to adenoids and diseased tom
sls and lack of care of nose and throat.
For this reason special notices of defective
hearing were not sent to parents where the
cause was otherwise clearly indicated.
Defective teeth 962, notices sent to pa
rents 962, adenoids present 95l, notices sent
to parents 42S Five hundred and twenty
three cases to be watched by teachers and
re-examined if defective hearing or lowered
vitality indicates such examination
Abnormal and diseased tonsils 1914, no
tees sent parents $50; 1914 to be
watched as in case of adenoids
Functional heart insulficiency 233, notices
sent parents forty; 1913 pupils to be watched
for further examination If such examination
Is indicated by lower vitality, poor school
work or otherwise, Valyular heart defect
forty-hve, notices sent to parents forty FIVE.
large number of the above pupils when
examined showed nervous instability, low
cred vitality and other poor conditions OF
health part of which Will disappear with
the correction Of defective eyesight, removal
of adenods, etc A part Will require still
further care in the change Of school work
school hours, increase Of physical activity
and out-of-door life.
Second-Report of physical examinations
OF pupils, selected by teachers and examin-
ers. because the need of examination was
indicated by poor health, lowered vitality
or poor school work. All pupils undergoing
the physical examination by examining staff,
notices sent to parents in almost all cases.
Number examined OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. S17
Defective in eyesight. ..,..............29 2
Defective in hearing ....,.............1 9G
Defective teeth Observation-Disclosures
| Adenoids present .....................2
Abnormal and diseased tonsils. 256
| Functional heart insufficiency. ..........115
| Organic heart disease ................. "A
The above pupils were pupils especially
| selected from different buildings pupils
of ungraded rooms of the special schools
or of the deaf room, or office examinations