Identifier: childhealthprogr00coll (find matches)
Title: Child health program for parent-teacher associations and women's clubs ..
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Collier, Lucy Wood. (from old catalog) Child health organization, New York. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Children School hygiene
Publisher: Washington : Govt. print. off.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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The hot school lunch can be used to train children in health habits.(Courtesy of the Peoples Institute, N. Y.) (6)
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The right kind of school lunch protects our children from the street vendor and the comer grocery.(Courtesy of the Peoples Institute, N. Y.) Suggestions for Practical WorI(. Find out from your school board or board of health what per centof the physical defects of your children are corrected. Schoolswithout medical school inspection can at least detect malnutrition bythe use of the scales. What free or low-priced medical service is provided by either yourboard of education, board of health, city hospital, or other agency?What dental work is provided ? What service for removal of tonsilsand adenoids? The importance of other clinical service may be gathered from thefollowing: About 1 per cent—200,000—of the 22,000,000 school children in the United Statesare mentally defective. Over 1 per cent—250,000 at least—are handicapped by organic heart disease. At least 5 per cent—1,000,000 children—have now or have had tuberculosis, adanger often to others as well as to themselves. Fi

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