The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1913-04-03
PUBLIC SCHOOL PUPILS
II Is The Duty OF the state 80 See thaf
Their Teeth are Kept In Good
Condition

Mayor Gaynor Of New York mas a p
pointed 1sa S. Vile, Of go West 18th
street member of the board of edu-
cation 10 succeed Jeremiah It. Maaoney,
Who resigned recently to accept pro-
motion to the position Of commissions er
OK accounts. In his letter appointing
DIR. Vile the mayor outlined his ideas
for child hygiene In the schools which
ne hopes te see forwarded by the new
HlemAer. The letter reads as follows:
- am appointing you a member Of
the board OF education. Ny object in
doing so is 10 have you enter syste-
matieallY into the work of examining
into the health Of the children in the
public schnols and taking SCIENTIFIC
means Of prevention ana cure. Among
athep things the eyes, ears and teeth of
the children should be carefully looked
into.
1T IS impossible 10 have a healthy
body without good teeth. Bur shall not
go into particulars. Your past exper-
tenee IN dealing with the defects and
diseases Of children will enable you to
think OF everything that should be
done. l should think il would be well
II there We're a standing committee for
this purpose in the board of education
but submit that to better judgments. =
Repsrt 0f ths auseaiesSa Dental society
a'he members of the Tuscaloosa
County Dental Society realizing the
sadly neglected condition of the mouths
Of so many children of the city, partly
through ignorance, but more often thru
neglect of parents, decided to see what
ann1d ha
better state of affairs.
Believing the schools to be the place
where we could do the best service, the
school committee was appointed and
now offer the following report
The greatest aid and best help we
can report Is the endorsement and CO.
operation Of the teachers and school
authorities; for.it is through them that
practically all that can be accomplished
Is to be done.
We have been given an open field to
work in, and the teachers have endeav-
ored to help along the cause. with an
interest and enthusiasm that we, the
promoters, wpula do well to follow.
The questioning and grading on the
Wcare of teeth of the five to eight huns
dFed pupils each day by the teachers,
we believe has helped very much to
awaken the children and some parents
to the necessity Of daily care to pre-
serve the teeth and having the en-
dorsement OF the teachers to impress
the Importance of it as no other method
could.
The tooth brush drills each school
day where about one hundred and ffty
of the smaller children are marched out
by their teachers and brush their teeth
IN running water each with his or her
own brush, that has been kept in a
separate box with name upon it; and
under the supervision OF the teacher to
direct how to brush the different parts
pf the mouth. Fhis we consider our
best feature and we hope to see put
into all the primary grades at least.
The arrangements are so simple and
inexpensive that any school can easily
have one; just long wooden trough
lined with metal and painted white, and
having a perforated water pipe down
the center and of such height as to nt
the smaller children.
The teacher distributes the brushes
In the class room, and marches the pu=
pills out and lines them up on both
sides OF the trough. and by turning on
a valve at the end, each one has clean
thirty to forty mouths are soon put in
q better condition to fight Off the many
Ills OF childhood, and the teeth pre-
served a little longer and the best in
suranee policy begun; the preservation
OF health and comfort
The general inspection by the regu-
larly appointed physician has caused us
to abandon the mouth inspection, as
that was included in his; and not only
the teeth but any other condition noted
that was apparent, and recommends
tions made for it's correction.
About one dozen. short talks have
been given by different dentists, that
we hope have sown some seed, that will
under the care of the teacher bear fruit
to those children that heard them, and
ia those at home who watch the older
ones and initiate their doings,
This We consider the cornerstone"
af the work; have a child learn at
school the necessity for good teeth and
how to keep them so. and coming from
his teacher, he is impressed in the best
and most forcibIe manner, and the other
members of the family are thus often
reminded of their own care, or neglect,
as it may he
Through the distribution of the gross
of brushes furnished by the assoeia-
ton, we could start the drill In the
first three grades OF the stafford school.
few furnishing their own brushes.
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