Bisbee daily review., 1919-11-02
SCHOOL AUTHORITIES IF DISTRICT
 LAUNCH VIGOROUS CAMPA|GN FOR
 LETTERING HEALTH IF CHILDREN
Parents Urged to Take Heed of Number of Detectives Schools; Only 35 Per Cent of Children in Central and Lowell Schools Normal Condition Not Peculiar
 to This District; Local Schools Take Lead

(The Review has arranged to pub fish a series of articles by pr. Dur fee for the parents and children of the Warren district, on various de- fects found in school chldren-de- fects of nutrition, teeth, eyes, throat, breathing, ears, skin-their causes, and the measures to be talk en for their prevention or elimina- tion. The first of these articles, on defects of nutrition, will appear in an early issue of the Review next week.-Editor).
 Determined that the standard of health maintained among the school children of the Warren District shall be second to none in the country, the local school authorities have launched, through Dr. R. B. Durfee, school physician, an aggressive and comprehensive campaign for the teaching of hygiene, and stimulating of interest in the subject, to every child under their care.
 Physical examinations began two weeks ago have revealed some as tonishing, but by no means unusual, conditions of health among the local school children. The large percent age of defective children found does not indicate a condition peculiar to the Warren District, but a condition to which the school authorities of this district are brave enough and progressive enough to call attention with a view to correction.
 In furtherance of this campaign of hygienic education and correction, the school authorities are anxious to have the fullest cooperation of the parents, both in correcting defects at home, and in urging upon their children the necessity of school at tendance and attention to the school hygienic program.
 We are trying to make our schools the best in the country from the standpoint of the health and general physical condition of the children,'' says Dr. Durfee. Not as good as the average school, but 
 aminations of school children in the Central and Lowell schools have re- vealed are not peculiar to the War ren District. They are quite gen eral But the Warren District schools wish to take the lead in making these conditions known, and in taking active steps to correct them"
 Negligence on the matter of health in other schools, it is pointed out, ignorance of their children's physical defects and what is necessary to correct them, to the serious detri- ment of the children in mature age. The Warren District school authori- ties have decided to commit no sin of omission in the matter, but to give health conditions the widest possible publicity
 Parents must not be alarmed un- duly over the percentage of defec- tive children found in the schools says Dr. Durfee, nor entertain any lued that IneSe defectS are cOntagi- ous. They should send their chil- dren to school to get the benefit, among the many other school bene- fits, of training in hygiene, and of the physical examinations through which these defects are made known and corrected. It is the hope of the school authorities that the parents will cooperate with them in every possible way in the health work which has been undertaken"
 Last week the Review published the results of Dr. Durfee's examina- tion of 402 white school children examined in the Central school. Of these 275, or SS per cent were found