The Sentinel=record., 1913-12-14
Cooperating With the Schools For the
 Health of School Children.

Cooperating With the Schools For the
 Health of School Children.
 New Works method of guarding the health of school children through play offered in last Weeks article. presented one method of health pro. lection and it's results The health needs of Hot Springs are similar but are more crying at present because they are not yet officially recognized bv state law or school board enact ment
 The only iron clad school health law in the state of Arkansas is that pertaining 10 vaccination which was rcidly enforced by school authorities for the first time this year. The law was not always enforced outside Of the schools though, for certain pupils who refused to be vacciuated or whose parents refused to permit vac. cination, have simply remained out of school-law breakers of the unen- forced attendance law somewhere be- tween school and health authorities coordination has been wanting
 Vaccination is used as a preventive against smallpox And for years the percentage of smallpox has been he'd to a minimum But there are other diseases continually invading cur pub lie schools that cause a larger per oentage of illness. backwardness and non-attendance annually than all the smallpox of the last fifteen years.
 Tonsiitis Epidemic.
 Tonsl'is is one of these diseases II spreads as rapidly as any known Illness and can easily affect 35 per cent of the pupils in school within two or three days. leaving them with any Of the variations between an ir- ritated throat and a dangerous quin- u Most children are usually on Their feet again within a few days. even if they have had severe su tack but the trouble does not erd there The poison created within the elauds of the throat has spread through the system leaving f in a debilitated condition, not readily no- ticed but which lasts for weeks
 Hot Springs had a slieht tonsilts epidemic last month The only deh- nte precaution is the recent abolition Of the common drinking cup. Sick children played with well children, took bites from the same apple or the same piece of bread and the active germs skipped merrily on Feyerisn children grew hotter and strUegled aeainsl unaccountable headaches. sore throats swelled. and no one was tsle wiser. because Y was nobody's business until the children were too ill 10 stay in school Teachers can rarely detect a slight Illness among . room tull of pupils
 Dozens of children are behind in their work today and are studying under the strain of general physical weakness because of this public neg lcct
 The school is a common meeting ground for children from every kind of home One home caunoi bc pro ioctcd from the diseases of another if conditions permit the child to act as the carrying agent any more than the clean prosperous home can be less i'm mune than the squald home from the sting of a malaria mosquito which has blown from a stagnant pool some, where between the two
 We are in constant danger from all 'he prevalent dhildrens diseases in iHst inc same way measles, whoor- ing cough, roseola. scarlet fever. and cbickenpox with their attendant or succeeding effects of weak eyes, weak hearts, poor hearing and un- strung nerves And still our quaran- tine measures are the most careless. and the city inspection of infected premises most remiss.
 The Individual Child.
 Eve, Ear Nose and Throat IT 'b" education of the child's mind le important to the community, the ed- uration and protection of the child's body is equally so The two cannot be separated-but if they could be-