Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1920-07-14
HEALTH WORK FOR
Z RURAL TEACHERS
(Oficial Red Cross Ne

(Oficial Red Cross News)
Training teachers to observe and
guard the health of their pupils is the
purpose of the health course for rural
teachers which is now being conducted
at the st. Cloud Normal School, under
the direction of DR.. Mabel Ulrich,
Health Service Director for the Nor
them Division Of the Red Cross. That
Johnny's apparent dullness is really the
result of his inability to hear distinct
~, that Mary stumbles in her reading
because her eyes need glasses, that the
thin little fellow in the corner who can
not pay attention to his books is the
victim of an undernourished body, are
facts which this course brings system
atically to the attention of the rural
teachers for the first time in this coun-
try.
When the teachers from all over the
state who are taking the health course
go to their schools in September they
will first proceed to observe in the
school-roOm the children who come to
them. Beginning with those who are
backward in their work. all the pupils
will be carefully weighed and measured,
and examined for defects of eyes and
ears and for throat troubles. The
names of those who are in any way de-
fective will be listed for the attention
OF the county nurse, if there is one. If
there is no nurse, an endeavor will be
made, with the assistance of DR.. Ulrich.
to arrange for the holding of a clinic.
when those in need of careful medical
treatment may receive it. If any child
appears tuberculOus, his afternoon tenn
perature will be taken and recorded
each day for three weeks. in order that
the disease may be detected and check
ed in an early stage. The teacher will
also keep herself alert to observe symp-
toms of communicable diseases in her
pupils. Health rules. proper eating and
sleeping and the use of the toothbrush,
will be presented in connection with
the regular schOOl-wOrk. by means of
posters, games, and the dramatizatiOp
of STORIES
The course at the st. Cloud Normal
School is being supervised by Miss
Elna Rood, of the Health Service De-
partment of the Northern Division,
who has been instructor also during the
first three weeks. First Aid work will
be presented the fourth week by G. R.
G. Fisher, First Aid Demonstration for
the Division and DR.. Cecile Moriarity,
of Minneapolis, will instruct in the de-
lection of physical defects and symp-
toms of communicable diseases during
the last two weeks. Similar courses
are already in progress or will be Of
fered later in the summer at the Nor
thern Normal and Industrial School at
Aberdeen, S. OAK, the Agricultural
College at Fargo, N OAK, the State
Normal School at Minot, N. Oak, and
the State Normal College at Dillon,
Montana, all of them financed by the
Northern Division, and directed by DR..
Ulrich.
!. Scholarships for teachers taking the
course have been granted by Renville
County Chapter of the Red Cross, the
first county Of Minnesota to take such
action. A sum of thirty dollars each
has been sent to Beryl Whitaker, Ruth
e. Antonsen, and Selma e. Hedberg,
all Of Renville county. Grant County
Chapter In Minnesota has also deter
mined to offer scholarships to the two
teachers from that county who are at
tending the classes and other Chapters
expect to vote upon the matter at the
next meeting OF the executive comm