The Detroit times., 1914-09-15
New York Succeeds In Saving Babies

disease. three per cent; sdenoids. a
per cent: serious decay Of teeth.
per cent; tuberculosis, two per cen
heart disease. two per cent; main
triton. 10 per cent; mentally defe
tive. one per cent: backward Oh
dren. 12-5 per cent; abnormally 81
ed children, three per cent.
The important point needing 81
phasis In that many OF these defecl
developmental and acquired. may
corrected In the early years Of IN
and TO neglect them results In serio(
impairment OF the health, growth a
efficiency Of the child.
The educational facilities provide
by q community for its children 10
reliable index OF the culture and prd
perity OF that community. The sal
tary provisions for schools II likewi
q fairly accurate measure of commu
lily knowledge OF sanitary matted
Our Investigations have revealed
widespread need for instruction
rural sanitation. which can be give
In large measure through ruI.
schools. Certainly no better mea
can be devised for determining {
origin and extent or certain commu&
cable diseases. for tracing and cd
trolling foci Of tuberculosis, for &
control OF the so-called contagio.
diseases Of childhood, and for q
eradication Of smallpox In rural q
tricts than general and proper
conducted medical supervision of {
schools.
1T Is unfortunate that the schd
year In rural districts seldom excee
six months. In many communities
10 even less. Any loss OF time
school attendance to child OF u.
limited opportunity for education 4
serious matter. and IL the more I
grettable because absences due
sickness are largely preventable."
To keep children on the farm u
must improve the rural schools, and |
improve the ruI
Boarding Rural schools you md
School Teachers. get better tea(
ers," IL ri
which has been impressed upon d
minds OF state leaders In all parts
the country In recent years, and "a
the experts under Commissioner p.
Claxton. of the United States burs
Of education, come forward with
new truth: THAT II q rural commlI
ity wants to get and keep Z n.
teacher, Its people must see that Z.
or he Is able to get good boardi
place
II does not take long. says the q
eral education experts, for the av
age person to appreciate the relati|
OF q teachers living conditions to d
general rural school problem, VIII
10 now engaging the attention Of NAL
OF the leading educators Of the coy
try. The trouble has been that [.
people Of the average community 4
dom give a thought 70 teachers
Ing conditions.
Too often the rural teacher d.
" almost impossible to secure
boarding accommodations" says !
commissioner Of education. wv
qualified teachers will not stay inX
place where boarding conditions
poor; they will stay only until I'd
have attained the teaching experien
required to qualify them for wills
or city school work.
AS rule, communities which 81
vide congenial living conditions
cure and hold good teachers. WI
those not doing so must take B
poorer teachers with the result I'd
their schools are inefiicient and nj
fective and that the children do y
acquire the interest In the schl
work that they should and might.
this time Of the year, therefore, COT
ty superintendent should set the
chinery In motion to see that the b
home In their district Is obtained [
a boarding place for the teacher.
The question of the rural teache|
boarding place Is q serious one u
deserves serious consideration. n
best home In the district should thru
Its door wide open and bid the tea&
er welcome. The best home IL no
too good for. the teacher whose hes
and soul Ii In her work. In ma
states now there are county super|
tendents who make II as much %
OF their work to find the teacher
boarding place as to find the teach
for the school. Many good patro
will refuse an application for boa'
from the teacher herself who wolN
consider 1t signal honor to be dip|
matically solicited by the county !
perintendent In behalf of the teach
Either the best homes must be open
as boarding places or cottages md
be built at public expense for HON
for the teacher" ~
A county superintendent at cd
ference In one of the southern stad
reported during the past summer ID
the only place open as q boardfI
place for one Of his teachers was IN
home where the husband was llvi}
with his second wife and the VI
with her second husband. In u
home were Ave children from the Ia
er's first marriage, six from the MOI
er's first marriage, and ave from th@
second marriage. There were me-
children In this home than the tead
er had In her school. and while q
parents were generally In harmon
there was no general agreemeI
among the three sets Of children. I'D
teacher was forced to resort TO a
schoolhouse for privacy in her sftsdid