The independent-reporter. [volume] (Skowhegan, Me.) 1909-1955, 1922-10-05
ANY PAGE No 40
Report OF Sk0whegan Red Cr0ss School
Nurse-Rural Schools

The school nurse started her visits
to the rural schools September Il and
hopes To continue with these visits
each week as long as the travelling
and weather permit All of the schools
have organized the Health Club. One
hundred and fifteen children were
weighed during the third week of
school and record is to be kept in
the form of a chart to compare with
future weighing. Several improve
ments were noticed as the nurse made
her rounds of sanitary inspection.
LOCAL SCHOOLS
The local schools have organized
their Health Club and started keep
ing score the first of October. The
boys and girls are anxious to continue
their junior Red Cross work this year
What is the Junior Red Cross and
what is their work some one asks. It
is an organization for the boys and
girls in which they can have the spe-
cial charm Of doing things for others.
distributing flowers, books, reading 10
invalids or supplying paper toweling
drinking cups for their schools In
this way Is developed lively sense
of civic responsibility for after all Il
good citizen Is only enc who intelli-
gently takes part working shoulder
TO shoulder With his neghbors for
the common good of all.
How do they raise the funds to car
ry on this work. BY small enter
tainments, sacrifice weeks or candy
sales Following is an example of
Junior spirit At the close of the
last school year the boys and girls
in the sixth and fourth grades of the
Park school bought couch hammock
for man who was very i'll and should
be out of doors continually but had
no suitable place until these thought
full juniors presented him with the
hammock. How are the boys and
girls enrolled into the junior Red
Cross? First thing enroll their
school as school auxiliary and this
is fifty cents room and with this
enrolment each room receives the of
fetal school publication of the Ameri-
can Red Cross which is well adapted
to classroom use. Next comes the
individual membership which is earn
d
|. By making individual. contribu-
ton to the school service fund; 2. By
taking definite part in school projects
to raise school service funds; 3, BY
performing significant service to
school community or chapter, the
teacher to be judge of services rem
dered. No pupil is entitled to wear
the Junior Red Cross button until he
has earned the right by one of the
three methods above mentioned.
Already the juniors are filling
Christmas boxes for the destitute
children in the countries of Central
Europe.
Account of work for September:
investigation visits. IS; visits to
schools, 80 Patients accompanied
to dentist, /; oculist 2. Educational
work: Talks (other than to school
classes), / health exhibits, milk, L,
Administrative work; committee
meetings, 4 Office interviews, "a; in
diyidual advice, Office Il; approximate
number hours in Office 50 hours. BK-
pences, auto hire SIS. Analysis work
in schools: number of schools visited,
%; number pupils In classroom in
spection, 21S; number individual pu-
pills inspected. 4 number sanitary In
spection of school and premises, 8;
number class talks, %; number health
clubs started, T. Corrections found
in school Oh laren during summer va
cation. fitted to glasses, 7; visited
dentist, 81 tonsils removed, s.
ALICE r. PARKER, II. y.