The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-02-21

citizens of the danger and the need. A I
good way to begin is to haveea Health +
day III the schools. You can get plans /
for such a day by sending four cents |
to the Health Education League, Bos
ton, tor their booklet on the subject. |
Have speakers in every school room;
citizens, lawyers, com
mercial men, women. Let them talk to
the pupils on such homelv subjects
as. How | Keep Well, +" 1.-THE Daily
Care of the Teeth, : = What to Eat and
Drink, = How to Be an Athlete, etc
The week previous get health articles
from the state board of health the anti
tuberculosis society, or the American
School Hygiene Association. New York,
and ask the local newspapers to quote
from them. Print and distribute read
able little flyers, like the " suffers for
envelopes that the Chautauqua Associa-
ton of Pennsylvania sends out, or
amusing iungles like this one on pre-
vention of contagion:
/" Mary had little cold,
1t started in her hcad
And everywhere that Mary went
That cold was sure to spread.
- She took it into school one day,
There WASH t any rule,
It made the children cough and sneeze
To have that cold in school
The teacher tried to drive it out,
| She tried hard, but-kerchoo,
| It didn t do bit of good,
/ 'C1usp +pacbpr cnuUL+ - +Co'''
Elsa Denison suggests getting up q
pin-map which locates By colored pins
every school child who has been sick
during the year. 1t makes a significant
picture, telling the story Of epidemics
Of measles and scarlet fever, and Of I'm
carcd-for physical defects. Each pir
means days of life and school lost
means child who is in need Of spe
icial, physical care. Did he Get it Pos
this map in the most public place II
town.
Begin With Visiting Nurse.
If YOU haven t the courage to expee
to meet the expense OF q supervisor,
physician, work first for schoo
, nurse.
Properly trained nurses, as alread.
demonstrated by DR. n. X. Foster, j
Oakland, Cal, are able to detect mos
OF the physical handicapS of schoe
children. Such nurses have no Difficult
ty in discovering common defects o
] the nervous system, eyes, ears, throat
, teeth, skin, and lymph glands Of tn
! meek. They can usually detect III
T. lpresencc OF adenoids and note disorder
1 of nutrition, as we'll as observe dcfcC
tive postures. About the only point
r of importance which they ought no
y to attempt to cover in their examine
tions are those which pertain to cel
4 tain special conditions which requir
q very exact diagnosis. These would il
clude the heart, lungs, special disease
of the skin and nervous system, an
some of the unusual contagious disease
+ of childhood. Certainly more than 9
= per cent OF the usual defects of scho,
r children viii be observed by the car,
i fully trained school nurse, and tn
plan viii inevitably Justify itself an
= gradually lead to more thorough organ
h zation with medical service.
According to DR.. r. c. Cabot. Of til
@ Harvard Medical school, the scho,
j. nurse comes to excel the Young doctor
u detecting the first symptoms OF infe
t tiouS disease.
a Physicians for less than one hoar
Ii day cost about half what nurses co,
5, for full time five and a half days
{ week. Nurses usually lessen profession
e. al jealousy among the doctors; get sa
D. isfactory responses from children an
s. from parents; obtain cures. the gre;
Il object Of medical supervisors; open Il
It eyes OF teachers 70 the symptoms Of al
% ments and defects; follow up the chi
d. drcu they themselves examine: co-ore
\ ate with women 5 clubs, dentists. III
= tpcnsaries and oeulists; get back Il
It truaHts aad ahSentceS; keep down il
pctigo, lice and infant mortality
5 the community, and set the pace f
e the larger and more complete work
d the visiting physician and laboratol
80 student.
N 1.-THE life is more, to paraphrase
familiar statement of Scriptu
than arithmetic more than Schola
ship, more than making a living.
5 Reader, will YOU help decide whcth
n the children in your county shall be