Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-01-09
CHILD HYG|EN|ST
IS IN NEW FIELD
Study Of School Child Makes
sgs New Profession Necessary,
Says Or. Hoag.

RATTLE CREEK, Mich, Jan. y
The mental, physical and moral ad-
vancement OF mankind was discussed
from almost every angle by men and
Women famed in their respective
fields of endeavor at today $ session
Of the National Race Betternlent con
ference. In addition to addresses u!
half : score OF nationally known
sFspeakers. two papers prepared by
men unable to attend the conference
E .ayere read to the delegates
On thu program for the forenoon
session were Booker 4. Washington,
WHO discussed THE Negro Race,
DR.. ]. N. Hurry, of the Indiana state
Board of Health, who spoke on Inc
Cost of Living as Factor IN Nace
Degeneracy;" DR.. Carolyn Gelsei, 0,
Shorter College, whose suplect was
strhe Race Betterment in women
COLLEGES" and DR.. II. w. AUSTIN, OF
The United States Public Health SER
Wee. who told What the United
States Public Health Service Is Dong
Tor Race Betterment." Sir Horace
Plunketts paper on Function OF IN
dividual, city, State and Natlon u!
bringing About Race Betternlehl,
and one prepared by DR.. Ernest Hoas'
OF Leland Stanford University on
4School Hygiene were the other le"-
lures of the days first session
THE child hygienist occupies i new
Held ana his work makes necessary
stba recognition of a new profession,
said DR.. Hoag's paper. "The hloueIh
school health officer must be spe-
cialist carefully trained in the prop
lens Of child hygiene, particularly as
this applies To the school chlld.
.frhe division of school hygiene
should include in its functions not
only the health supervision OF schoo.
children and the maintenance OF
heaithful school environment put also
xupervision of the teaching OF ny
aiene, of the health of teachers on
physical education and OF pubic
lecture department for parents, Where
-f,p3cs on the home and school hygiene
at the child may be presented. II
also should include the maintenance
~ a central laboratory for the study
,.f exceptional children, especially
thoss who are retarded and mentaily
-ssb-norinal.' -,
Perhaps the most important deyei-
opnent in school hygiene, SAID Df
fIoag's paper. is that which reiates
t. the Exceptional child
1.-THE proper study of such chilurell
Fsr1uires some special training III
to the paper, which cannot at pres
tsf1t b., required of every school oftlclal
Every large well-organized school
health dccartment, however, VIII IN
ciude this division and provide Wen
trained person to carry on the work
as now is done in Los Anseles'
Iahiladeiphia, Milwaukee, Minneap-
oils. Grand Rapids and few othef
cities.
.aNot less than | per cent, ana
probably nearly per cent, OF the
Z f,ildren in the average school are
1salcw normal in intelligence 10 a
degree which units them to proht
fr ordinary school methods. 1t Is Oh
rfle greatest Importance clearly 10
distincslish between the merely uuii
and the defective chi d; between the
morally delinquent and the mentally
defective: between the misht or spe-
ciali7ed defective and the intellectual
" sub-nornal, yet this is rarely done
in ON. Sc houls today,
eth new conception Of the child
y ~aierc involves the adaptation OIL tne
school To the child instead OF VAN
ettein IS to force the child to tit the
-se.laee'."
Standards Of school should be fur
1,ishsd b, the State, Dr. Goag de-
s4pird Minnesota and. to a smaller
esstn VIRGINIA, be said, are the only
States now attempting to furnish
steh standard. though Michigan mas
Lndertaken a limited amount OF work
asong sialilar lines.