The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1912-08-29
lANY EXAMINATIONS MADE
Mrs. Mary D. Bradford Shows Cond;-
lions That Prevail Throughout the
Country and Shows Need of Greatest
Care on the Part Of the Parents.
lBv Mrs. Mary D. Bradfordl

by MIS-. Mdfy ~. bTdulOIuI
Of the 20,0OO,OOo school children in
this country, not less than rs per cent
need attention today for physical de-
fects which are prejudicial to health
and which are partially or completely
remediable.O This is the finding of
DR.. Thomas D. Wood, professor Of
physical education in the Teachers Col
lege, Columbia University, New York,
and published for free distribution by
the United States Bureau Of Education.
"Careful study Of statistics and es-
timation of all conditions leads to the
following conclusions, = writes DR..
Wood.
|FFrom ~ to 2 per cent, or 100000,
of these have organic heart disease.
Probably per cent, 100000 at
least, have now or have had tubercul-
Gus disease of the lungs.
"About per cent, or 100000, have
spinal curvature, fat foot, or some
other moderate deformity serious
enough to interfere 20 some degree
with health.
cover 5 per cent, or 100000, have
defective hearing.
"About 25 per cent, or 100000,
have defective vision.
about 25 per cent, or 100000,
are suffering from &itsfadtrition, in
many cases due in part at least to one
or more of the other defects enumerated.
cover 80 per cent, or 100000,
have enlarged tonsils, adenoids, or en-
larged cervical glands which need at
tention,
cover so per cent, or 100000 Tin
some schools as high as SO per cent?,
have defective teeth which are inter
fering with health.
FSeveral millions Of the children
possess, each, two or more of the han
dlcapping defects.
"About 100 cities in the United
States have as many different kinds of
organizations for the care of health in
the schools.
"The most important of all our ma
tional resources is the health of the
people. The most valuable asset in our
capital of national vitality is the health
of the Children
The above is quotation from cir
cular recently sent out by the Federal
Bureau of Education.
To combat ignorance is to work for
health. Even selfshness and greed
which push aside the rights Of others,
and disregard all moral obligations, are
forms of ignorance. 1t is only the
slow progress of education that will
bring security of health and whole
someness to the community. Health
and education are inseparable.
Such an array Of conclusions as DR..
Wood gives will not be found, when
men and women realize that the primal
right of every child is to be well born;
when parents understand the hygiene
of living, and cause their children to
have regular and abundant sleep, clean
bodies, simple, nourishing food, and
fresh air; in other words, when educa-
ton has done its perfect work.
"Public education is theological, the
strategic, and the responsible agency Of
the nation, of each state, and of each
community for the conservation and en-
hancement Of child health.
ITO become an effective instrument
for the protection and promotion of
child health, it is essential that the
school should not only be sanitary.
healthful place for children, but that
the various agencies in public educa-
tion should be SO organized that each
pupil may be given the best possible
opportunity to escape weakness and
disease and far more to realize the at
tainable best in growth, in develop
ment Of biologic, intellectual, moral,
social, and economic power.
Since a year ago two agencies have
been added to the educational forces
# Kenosha; the visiting nurse and the
:ity medical inspector. These are in
close touch with all the schools, and
greater safety to the children of
Kenosha.
Miss Hazel Brady of Omaha, is here
for two weeks visit with her par
pn4s Mr. and Mrs + u Rradv