This report on "Health Work in the Public Schools" is one of the 25 sections of the report of the Educational Survey of Cleveland conducted by the Survey Committee of the Cleveland Foundation in 1915. Twenty-three of these sections will be published as separate monographs. In addition there will be a larger volume giving a summary of the findings and recommendations relating to the regular work of the public schools, and a second similar volume giving the summary of those sections relating to industrial education. Copies of all these publications may be obtained from the Cleveland Foundation. They may also be obtained from the Division of Education of the Russell Sage Foundation, New York City. A complete list will be found in the back of this volume, together with prices.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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- Forward[5]
- List of Illustrations and Diagrams[9]
- The Argument for Medical Inspection[11]
- Health and School Progress[13]
- Examinations for Physical Defects[14]
- Objections to Medical Inspection[16]
- How the Work Started[18]
- The Present System[20]
- The School Nurse[21]
- Cleveland's Dispensaries[24]
- Dental Clinics[28]
- Eye Clinics[30]
- Co-operation of College for Barbers[32]
- The Medical Inspection Staff[32]
- The Plan of Concentrating Interests[34]
- Uniform Procedure[37]
- Vaccination[39]
- Future Development[43]
- Ten Types of Health Work[46]
- Health and Education and Business[48]
- Summary[54]
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
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- Team work between physician and nurse in Cleveland.[Frontispiece]
- Tony's tonsils need attention[17]
- Either doctor or nurse visits every school every day[20]
- Cleveland's dispensaries are well equipped[25]
- The equipment of the Marion School dental clinic cost about $700[28]
- The eye clinic is advertised by its loving friends[31]
- Vaccinated children at Hodge School—50,000 more are unvaccinated39
- Shower baths installed in an old building in a crowded section[44]
DIAGRAMS
- Number of children given physical examinations each year for five school years and number found to have physical defects[26]
- Per cent of physical defects corrected each year for five school years[36]