1904-5. ] THE MEDICAL INSPECTION OF SCHOOL CHILDREN. 209 
phone, telegram. or special messenger. This notification must be fol- 
lowed within three hours, by a written application for leave of absence. 
When the inspector returns to duty after illness or other cause of ab- 
sence, he must report in person at the Department, make out a second 
written application for leave of absence, stating definitely the dates 
during which he was away from duty and attach thereto a certificate 
from his attending physician. 
Every Saturday, at 9 a.m., the medical school inspectors shall report 
at the Central Office in person. 
Respectfully yours, 
Joun J. Cronin, M.D., 
Assistant Chief Medical Inspector. 
DUTIES OF SCHOOL NURSES. 
1. The school nurse shall receive from the supervising nurse the 
following information : (a) the schools in which she is to perform her 
duties ; (b) the hours for visiting each school ; (c) to whom she shall 
report in each school. 
2. The school nurse on entering a school shall report (a) to the prin- 
cipal of the school, and from the principal obtain a place in which to 
work ; (b) to the medical inspector in charge of school, and arrange 
with the medical inspector a method for receiving daily report of cases 
to be visited or treated. 
3. The nurse shall keep a record, in a book kept for the purpose, 
of her time of entering and leaving schools. 
4. On arriving at school each day, the school nurse shall report to 
the principal or the principal’s representative. 
5. She shall record in a book provided for the purpose, the name, 
age, address, disease, and treatment of each child attended in school. 
A separate record shall be kept of all excluded children and children to 
be visited. 
6. The names of excluded children will be obtained each day from 
the daily list left by the medical inspector in the clerk’s desk. 
7. All children excluded shall be visited by the school nurses at 
their homes, if they do not return at the time specified by the medical 
inspector, except that children excluded for measles, scarlet fever, dip- 
theria, varicella, peritussis, mumps, shall not be visited by the school 
nurse. 
