The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-07-14
CHILDREN WILL
 BE MEDICALLY
 EXAMINED FREE

| Parents of children who are to at tend school this fall for the first time are invited by the Department of Health to send their children, to the | schools listed below, for free medical | examination. This work is connected with the recently announced summer l program intended to take care of the | tiny tots.
 These examinations are by no means I compulsory and are for the purpose of determining any physical defects in | the children and to prevent the spread i of communicable diseases amongst them.
 The children of the 9th grades of ithe public schools are examined for 1 defects and traces of disease which might make them unfit for the greate | strains brought upon them by the longer hours and harder conditions which they encounter in the factories, stores and offices after they leave | school
 The department is attempting to put into effect 'an ounce of preven- l tion is worth a ton of cure.' The work of caring for the infants of ''pre- schooP' age is just now attracting the major attention of the health author ities.
 Twenty Districts. To care efficiently for the children Of the city and in order that every possible kind of pre-schoo1 age may be reached, the city has been divided into 20 health districts with a nurse in each district.
 The nurse is primarily a health officer in her district in so far the school children are concerned, and l her duties are many and varied. The nurse is the medical inspector of the school children in her district and | she in turn is under the direction of 1 a department physician. The work neceSsitateS that each and every nurse be constantly on the alert for signs of physical defects and | communicable diseases of the chill | drn Ioo J J5c%,- dren who may be referred to her by | the children in the schools. l Gases of a serious nature are re- | ferred to the family physician. for to refer cases to their own private | doctors" Dr. William H. Coon 1 Health officer. said. Resources for Nurse. | While she works alone in her dis | trict, the nurse has the entire re- sources of the Health Department | in back of her. The sanitary depart | ment, the laboratories, division of communicable diseases are all at her | service.
 | The nurses do not treat the com | municable diseases, but report them | immediately to a separate depart
 ment which has this end of the work. | In order that the work of physical | examination may be completed in | all of the II schools, they have been | concentrated into 12 examining dis | 1He uaIeS ana the names of | the 12 schools with the names of the | schools from which school children | will be examined are given below
 The examinations will all be done 1 in the morning from 9:30 in the morn ing until the examinations are com pleted-
 July IT at Prospect School-Pros-
 pect, Sacred Heart and Jefferson. | July IS at Jackson Schooi-Jack-
 son, Longfellow, Black Rock and
 Whittier.
 July 24 at Maplewood School
 Maplewood and Capitol Avenue
 July 25 at Read SchooI-Read d
 Island Brook and Omega
 July 31 at Wheeler Schoo1-Wash
 ington, Wheeler, Webster, and St
 Augustfne's. -
 August l at Grand SchoorColum
 bus, Grand and St. Joseph's
 August at Garfield SchoI-Gar
 field, Staples, Barnum, Huntington
 Road. St. Charles and St. Johns.
 August at Mckinley School-Iin
 coin. Newfield and Mckinley.
 August A at Madison School-SheI
 ton. Madison and Sheridan.
 August Is at SummerfieId School
 Hall and Summerfeld.
 August 21 at WaltersvilIe School
 Waltersville, Franklin, St Mary's. St
 MlchaeFs and St. CyriTs.
 August p at Elias Howe School
 Bryant and Elias Howe.