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BILL As PROPOSED BY THE SOUTH
CAROLINA MEDICAL ASSO-
CtATlUN
VISIONS IN FULL


Below Will Ee found tie full bill
known as The NJ al Inspection bill
vetcei IS Governor Blease at the
last session Of the Legislature.
To provide for a System of Medical
Examination of School Children n
Students Attending Public Schools
and Colleges within the State.
Be it enacted by the General Assem-
Ely OF the State Of South Carolina:
Sect. /. The Board of School Trus
tees shall appoint one or more ply.
s!LianS to act as official medical eN
aminers, hereinafter called school
physicians under the terms of this
Act, at each and every public schoo.
and college within the State, n
Shall provide said physicians with al.
prope facilities for the performance
of their duties as such examiners:
Provided, however, that nothing here
in contained shall be construed to re-
quire or authorize such appointment
at any school Or college already en-
ploying Il regular physician for its
school children or students.
Sec.2. E:ery school physician shall
make a prompt examination and dag
noSis OF all children or students re-
ferred to him as hereinafter provided.
and such further examination Of teach
ers, janitors and school buildings as
in his opinion the protection OF the
health o fthe public may require.
Sec. 3. The teachers shall cause to
be reported to a school physician for
examination and diagnosis every
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school without a certificate from a
board of health, or where no such
board exists a physician, after abb
sence on account OF illness or from
unknown cause;and every school child
or student who shows signs Of ill
health or of suffering from conta-
gious or infectious disease shall be so
reported, unless at onc excluded from
the school by principal or teacher.
Sec. 4. The school physician shall
report to the appropriate teacher and
the teacher shall notify the parent or
guardian Of any school child or stu
dent who may be suffering with any
defect or disease. Whenever a school
child or student shows symptoms OF
smallpox, whooping cough, d%ipthera.
scarlet fever, measles, chicken po1,
mumps, influenza or any other cOnta-
gious or infectious disease, such
school child or student shall be sent
home Immediately by the teacher, or
as soon as safe and proper convey
ance can be found, and the teacher or
principal shall at once notify the local
board of health, where n exists:
Provided, however, that nothing in
Section 4 shall prohibit the proper au-
thorities from sending cases suffering
from the above mentioned diseases to
a hospital connected with an institu-
ton with facilities for the care OF such
diseases.
Sec. 5. The school physician Of ev-
cry school and college shall separate
ly and carefully examine and test ev-
cry school child or student in the in
stitution which he serves at least once
every school year, as near the begin
ming of the session as can be agreed
upon by the principal, teacher and
examiner, to ascertain whether such
school child or student is suffering
from defective sight or hearing, tuber-
culosis, malaria or hookworm disease,
or any other disability or defect tend
ing to prevent the full benefit OF
scholastic work requiring a modiica-
ton of such scholastic work in order
to prevent injury to the school child
or student and to secure the best edu-
cational results. The examiner shall
notify the teacher in charge OF any
school child or student suffering from
a defect or disease requiring treat
ment, and he shall keep a physical
record Of each school child or student
in such form as the board Of health
shall provide. He shall also furnish to
the teacher a duplicate record to be
kept az a permanent record Of the
school.
Sec. 6. The State Board Of Health
shall formulate rules and regulations
for the guidance Of the said physi-
clans and the board of trustees shall
prescribe a basis Of reasonable COM
pensation for said physicians, which
shall be laid in each school district
out of the school funds thereof in the
same manne as other school expen-
seS.
Sec. Z. All acts and parts of Acts