Putnam County herald. (Cookeville, Tenn.) 1903-1922, 1915-06-24
CITY SCHOOL BOARD MEETS AND
ADOPTS IMPORTANT REso-
LUTlONS

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ADOPTS IMPORTANT REso-
LUTIoNs
At a meeting of the City Schoo
Board, Prot. Carlisle was unanimously
elected principal for next term. The
school board expects to hold the prin
opal responsible for the success OF
failure Of the city school and all as
sistant teachers are expected to work
in harmony, cheerfully and willingly
in the grade assigned them by the
principal.
The following resolutions were
unanimously adopted:
1st-All teachers are required to file
q certificate Of health with the chair.
man Of school board on the beginning
of term and any teacher failing to do
this will be ignored and someone in
his or her place elected instead who
meets above requirements. A certih-
cate Of health will be received from
any physician in Putnam county who
is in good standing in the Putnam
County Medical Society.
2nd-All children Of the public
school, including janitor and other as
sistants working in and around city
school building, will be required to be
vaccinated against smallpox, unless
they can show good scar of previous
vaccination.
3rd-All pupils suffering with ary
contagious or infectious disease when
discovered will be excluded from school
until safe for them to return. Cause
for exclusion rom school may be-
(a) Djphtheria, scarlet fever, tonsi-
ntie. acute sore throat, measles, Ger
man measles, chicken pox, mumps
whooping cough and tuberculosis.
(b) Pidicuosis (lousiness), ring
worm. impetigo contagiosum and sea-
bus (itch).
(c) Sore eyes and chronic discharge
from the ear, which may be tubercu-
lar as we'll as very offensive in the
school room. Z
(d) The school board especially
wishes to call the attention Of the pat
rome of the public school to disease
Of the eye known as Trachoma or
granular lids. Our government will
not allow any immigrant to set foot on
American soil who has granular lids
and neither does the city school board
propose to let any child attend our
school who has granular lids unless
said pupil is under the treatment Of
competent physician. Remember,
when you have q case Of granular lids
in your home it means weeks, months
and sometimes years of trouble as the
disease Is very difficult to cure by any
eye specialist and is to be dreaded in
our schools much more than smallpox.
Teac' ers and patrons could help US by
being on the lookout for this much to
be dreaded disease.
4th-We suggest and recommend
that all our teachers do post graduate
work by attending some summer
school. Those who attend summer
schools and keep fully abreast Of the
times are more likely to have perma-
nent place in our schools than those
who do not.
5th-We recommend as a precau- |
tionary measure that all our teachers |
be vaccinated against typhoid fever.
6th-Remember it is the teaching |
of medical science that many diseases
and deaths Of the young are easily pre-
and that in order to accom-
plish our best results we must have
he assistance and hearty cooperation
of all our patrons. Remember the
best place to instruct our children in
medicine is In the school
.oom. The citizen who does not take
interest in promoting the welfare of
,ur schools and the health of the COM
nunity at large is traitor in our
midst.
Let us all work together for the best
interest Of our town and schools, and
ct II be said that Cookeville is not
,nly the healthiest place in Tennessee
o live but she also has the best
chools in the state.
Owing to large number Of applicants
was very dinicult to select new
eachers but after due consideration
IL our present teachers, except one.
vere reelected and Mise Bessie Selby
nd Mrs. Algood Carlen added to the
aculty.
TEACHERS, TAKE NOTICE
The institute for Putnam county
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