Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1913-08-29

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Lectures Given for Pupils.
I'm addition to the hall, which Is
open to all the visitors to the muse.
UNI Numbering 100000 a year(, we
arrange special lectures to the school
children or the occasion of their Wis
its. 1t is the policy Of the museum
to provide lectures generally Illus
trated) on any subject within the
field for any teacher who may ask
for 1t and for any number of pupils,
from q score to a Thousand. Or, il
the teacher prefers to lecture himself,
we provide hall, lantern slides and
operator. The larger high schools
send their classes twice a year, near
the end of each term, for a talk on
water or milk, or insect.bOrne disease
of city cleaning, or some other topic
which fits into their course of study
at the time.
For some time the American mu
scum has taken an active part in the
nature study work Of the public
schools by circulating loan collections
Of birds, insects, mollusks, sponges,
corals, woods, minerals and the like.
At the instance OF some of the high
school teachers most active in civic
biology we have. applied this same
plan to our public health extension
work. On first attempt was in the
form of an album Of large photo
graphs dealing with the spread and
prevention of communicable diseases.
During the past half year these
albums went to ten high schools and
twenty-five elementary schools in the
city and We're used by $3.50 chill
dren. The general method pursued
by the teacher is to go over them
pretty thoroughly in the higher grades
and then to bring them into the gen
eral assembly hall, where a talk is
given upon them and where they are
often left for inspection. The time
for which n of the albums is kept
in a school varies from eight weeks
to four months, and one distributing
agent reports that once a teacher
gets an album she will not %releasefit
until. her children have seen it sew.
eral times, and until the other chill
dren in the school have seer IT,
Scheme Only in Beginning.
"All this is, Of course, only a be,
ginning Of what we hone to do. even
fOr.the high schools. We have as yet
scarcely touched the great underlying
problem Of the elementary schools:
where it is most vital that a sound
basis should be laid for helthy living
and where at present Tin New York
City, fifteen minutes a week is the
maximum time that can be spared for
theoretical instruction in hygiene.
We do feel. however, that we have
done enough to show that museum,
methods of instruction may be made
of use in the teaching of school ny,
giene and sanitation. d
President Osborn of the American
museum, in speaking of its general
educational work, has said, Already
the child can see here what Aristotle
dreamt Of but never say, sand whai
Darwin and Huxley put into prophe.
cy but did not live to see So in Our
special field we may teach the child
the causes of diseases which we're
mysterious to Pasteur and och. We
have the opportunity to spread
throuh the great school population
of New York a knowledge OF the laws
Of health such as Hygeia never
vouchsafed to any of her devotees in
any other age of ours"
Among the women who have spok
en- before the congress is DR.. Mary r
Lapham Of Highlands, NJ c., who Sc,
lected as her subject the prevention
Of tuberculosis by the medical inspec-
ton of schools. This is what DR.. Lap
ham said: :
Medical Inspection Necessary.
IF q man or a child is well ard
! strong it does not occur to us to ques-
ton appearances. When the business
Of life is being carried on by a nan
in the very heyday OF his strength.
and ability we no more thing Of his
having tuberculosis than OF his hay.
ing a r~attlesnake. The robust, rudy
child playing with his fellows, eating
and sleeping with all the zest Of
health gives no intination whatever
of the dark road he has to travel in
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