The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1940-09-06

enters Scnool. L ne ue1eCI Hiay 10
entirely unsupported. In one COM
munity in one year sc, 200 children
were found to have defective vision
and 1000 defective hearing.
Other defects while not so dis
abling should receive considera-
ton. The child who is mouth
breather and is subject to chronic
colds cannot concentrate as sue
cessfully as his healthy school
mates. At this time of year the
nose and throat surgeons are
busily engaged in working on ade-
noids and tonsils so as TO correct
the defects resulting from mouth.
breathing. The teeth should be ex-
amired and put in good condition
mouth breathing may result In
bad occlusion Of the teeth and NAL
formed teeth may tend TO keep 4
child a mouth breather. Eleven
per cent Of children are found to
be either mouth-breathers or TO
have abscessed teeth, the first year
they enter school.
Undernourishment Common
All the defects mentioned are OF
a remediable nature and need not
hamper a child's progress forever.
Undernourishment is found in
a greater or less degree in nearly a
third of all first year school chill
dren. In most cases this is due TO
ignorance of the use of protective
foods at home. 1t is so easy now
adays to get in the habit of eating
processed foods, especially in a
household where the cook and
housekeeper goes to town to work,
as well. School teachers tell one
that hundreds of children come TO
school having had an insufficient
breakfast or one that represents
internal starvation because moth
er and father both had to rush off
to work. To provide breakfast out
of a can or box is much easier
than getting fresh milk, fresh
fruit, an egg and q good cooked
cereal.
Posture is an indication Of good
health or bad health rather than
a disease in itself. II may mean
poor nourishment, the residue Of
ricketts, earlier, weak muscles from
under-nutrition or bad postural
habits.
Schools have found an awaken
ing conscience in these conditions
in their pupils. They have d re-
sponsibility for the physical as
we'll as the spiritual rehabilitation
of their pupils. So in one form or
another a physical examination Of
all first year school childrenis at
tempted pretty widely over the
United States. The best plan
would be for the parents to have
their family physician make the
examination: it would be more
Thorough and necessarily more in
telligent than the examination
made by the school physician or
the school nurse. But whatever
plan is used the general movement
will inevitably lead TO a higher
standard Of physical efficiency in
the citizen Of tomorrow
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
E. NJ. BIS smoking harmful
in Meniere's disease? Also is beer
and alcohol harmful"
Answer-I have looked up this
question in several textbooks on
ear disease and nervous disease
and l find no prohibition against
smoking expressed by the authors.
Patients / remember with Me-
niere's disease have been too sick
to ask about it. When you are so
dizzy you have TO lie down on the
bed, order the room to be dark
ened, shut off the telephone and all
other noises, and hang on TO the
head Of the bed because you are
spinning around so hard, you are
not likely to think Of taking q
smoke. Beer and alcohol make
well people dizzy, so they are not
advised.
L. B. A. "Please advise me
what foods TO eat in bad case OF
anemia? / am so years old
Answer-Liver, half pound a
day, if the anemia is Of the Addi-
sonian type task your doctor 70
find out about this), spinach and
eggs for iron.
C. R.-"Will you please tell me
a list of places in the United States
with climate most favorable TO
patients suffering from sinus in
lection? My son six years old is
afflicted"
Answer-The dry, warm desert
climates Of New Mexico, Arizona,
ETC., are usually recommended.
Six-years old, however, is Very
young for true sinus infection.
Are you sure post nasal obstruc-
ton, as from infected adenoids, is
not the real cause!