The Calumet news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 1907-1938, 1910-03-03
BOARD OF EDUCATION MEETS;
APPOINTS MEDICAL INSPECTOR
DR.. ]. 7. Berry Named as Exam
liner of School Children.
Other Business.
BOARD WILL VISIT SCHOOLS

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schools will have a medical inspector.
This was decided at the meeting of the
Portage township board of education
yesterday afternoon and DR. ]. +. Berry
was named as the one to put the in
spection into effect. The plan is TO
make this a sort of experiment and
keep accurate record OF the results OBJ
tanned and if they are satisfactory, the
inspection will be a permanent feature
in the schools of Houghton and the
township.
Houghton is the first town in the
upper peninsula to establish this sort
of an inspection and the outcome will
doubtless be watched with much in
terest by school authorities in other
cities. Calumet tried out similar,
though not so complete a plan of in
spection, in their schools some time
ago when they employed a trained
nurse to inspect the school buildings
TO determine their condition from a
viewpoint of sanitation. 1t has since
abandoned the plan.
Contasion Will be Detected.
The plan OF the Portage lake board is
to have DR.. Berry make regular calls
at the schools of the district at which
time he will not only inspect the build
ings but will also make examinations
Of the children. In this manner the
school board believes that any con-
tagious disease would be readily de-
tected and stamped out before it could
gain any great hold in the community.
The inspecting physician will look
over the children with special refer
ence to the presence of adenoids and
the condition of the eyes and ears.
The teachers of the various schools
will be instructed by the examiner in
the matter of detecting symptoms of
disease and will be obliged to keep
records and make reports to the ex-
aiming physician and to aid him in
every possible manner to find and cor
rect any ailment among the school
children. DR. Berry win have complete
authority in all matters affecting the
sanitation Of the school buildings and
any matters having a bearing upon
the condition of the health of the pu-
pills.
Another important matter considered
at the meeting yesterday was the idea
of opening the schools at an earlier
date in the fall and 1t was finally de-
cided to set the day for opening a
week ahead Of the time of opening in
previous years. This will not make
the school year longer but will only
give a longer vacation at the Christ
mas season. The annual visits of the
board To the schools of the township
will start next Monday on which day
they will call upon the schools of the
village with the exception of the CEN
tral building.
Hancock Would Use Library.
The board has received a request
that the citizens of Hancock be per-
mitted to borrow books from the new
public library. After due considera-
ton of the request the board was
forced reluctantly. to refuse this priv
ilege to the people Of the neighboring
AoNH DtNduSt OF the small NUMBER OF
books in the library and the large list
OF borrowers in the home village The
board declared that they would be glad
to have the Hancock people make use
Of the reading room and the reference
department of the library and hoped
at some future time to be enabled to
grant the request
Miss WHARF, the librarian. has made
the announcement that those who have
sent postals and telephone messages
about having magazines for the library
will be waited upon by the dray. which
will begin making calls about the 10th
of the month. She says the library
will be very grateful for and make
splendid use OF any bound magazines
or other publications as well as those
not bound. A postal or a telephone
call will bring the dray to the door to
take away any contribution.
Truant Officer Cosgrove of Chassell
Yesterday arrested ApJrou.