MEDICAL INSPECTION OF SCHOOLS 



which gave this information a table has been compiled showing 

 the total number of cities having medical inspection systems in 

 each year since the pioneer work in Boston. 



TABLE 2. CITIES OF UNITED STATES HAVING SYSTEMS OF MEDICAL 

 INSPECTION IN EACH YEAR FROM 1894 TO IQI I 



The reason for the comparatively slight increase in the year 

 1911 is that the data were gathered in the early spring, so that 

 cities which adopted medical inspection later in the year were not 

 included. 



The chart on page 17 represents graphically the number of 

 cities having medical inspection each year since 1894, and shows 

 how the growth of the movement, at first slow and gradual, has 

 become in the later years increasingly rapid. 



SCHOOL PHYSICIANS 



The returns of the investigation show that 354 of the 443 

 cities having systems of medical inspection, or about 80 per cent 

 of them, employed school physicians, and that the total number 

 of physicians employed was 1,415. More than half of these were 

 in the North Atlantic states and more than half of the remaining 

 number in the North Central states. Their distribution in the 

 several divisions is shown in Table 3. 



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