South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-05-10
WITH OTHER EDITORS
THAN OURS
TH1 NURSES AND THE SCHOOLS

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(S,lt Lake City Desert News
some individuals are 50 welded TO
the idea Of personal liberty that in
time they come 10 believe-thoush
/ they won't admit it-that they should
bc privileged TO enjoy it even if all
the other millions OF their fellowTnen
have to suffer through IL This is
personal liberty of the Nth power or
labsurdity. but the world is not yet
ria of it's absurd individuals. and the
rule is that they are provokingly vo-
ciferous When the fad OF en-
/ ploying nurses in the public schools
was adopted many OF these persons
given 10 much talking protested Shat
! their personal liberty was being in
| fringed that their children should
not BE subjected 10 the enforced
( scrutiny CT these buSybOdies, and
much more TO the same general eff
feet. They gained quite an audi
ence dwindled in numbers until now
il is almost negligible. Still there are
some remaining TO talk about il and
8 few who viii still listen.
From time 10 time the reports Of
are worth inspection. The report for
March has jus, been filed with the
/ board OF health for this city. II
shows some very interesting facts
There were S9,412 inspections made
and of the number Sol children were
excluded from school, 50 were re-
ferred TO medical inspectors. 1913
minor dressings APPLIED. AdenOids
were removed frmo ~ children, so
enlarged tOnsils were removed, one
pupil was placed under treatment for
/ defective hearing and % for defect
/ i've vision. Probably the greater
number Of these children were suf-
fering from ailments and defects Of
which their parents were unaware.
Other parents, perhaps, did not re-
gard them as serious enough TO merit
attention. The probabilities are that
in eveyr case the physical wellbeing
| OF these pupils was greatly advanced
and that as a result manifest i'm
prOvement will follow in their school
work. OF course the fact is not to
be lost sight of that personal liberty
was dealt S9,421 knockouts
The causes for the exclusion of
pupils furnish more interesting in
formation Of the sort Of work the
school nurses are doing RingwOTm,
scabies. impetigo pediculosis, tOnsi-
! litis, eye Infection, measles, mumps,
scarletina, whooping cough, diph-
! iberia and chickenpox are among
those listed Who ever might think
that pedicuI osis was an ailment of
the pedal extremities upon seeking
definite information would be sur
prised to find that the trouble was
at the other end Of the human taeer-
na.cle and that medication was not
indicated 50 much as liberal and fire.
quent additions. Impctigo is anOth-
er cause that any right thinking par
ent would regard as sufficient cause
for exclusion. with the others ev-
eryone is more or less familiar.
Every parent can settle the issue
between unrestrained personal hber-
" and medical inspection in the
schools by asking himself whether
he would be quite willing to have
his child sit near and mingle with
schoclgnates regardless of whether
they were afflicted with any of the
listed disorders or not. The opinions
OF those who say they don't care are
hardly worth listening 10. In this
particular case, the personal liberty
crank seems to have lost and there
are few who mourn his defeat.