MEDICAL INSPECTION OF SCHOOLS 



SCHOOL NURSES 



The school nurse is now almost universally admitted to 

 be one of the most necessary adjuncts of a well developed system 

 of medical inspection. The total number employed in American 

 cities in 1911 according to the returns of the same investigation 

 was 415, of whom 375, or 90 per cent, were in the North Atlantic 

 and North Central states. Their distribution in the different 

 divisions was as follows: 



TABLE 4. CITIES OF UNITED STATES HAVING SYSTEMS OF MEDICAL 



INSPECTION, CITIES EMPLOYING SCHOOL NURSES, AND NUMBER 



OF NURSES EMPLOYED, BY GROUPS OF STATES. 191 I 



DENTAL INSPECTION 



Increasing attention is being paid in American schools 

 to the inspection of children's teeth, and the work is being more 

 and more commonly carried on as a branch of medical inspection 

 in a semi-independent way. In a number of the large cities the 

 local dental associations have established clinics at which school 

 children are given treatment either gratis or at small expense. 

 In most of these cases dentists serve without remuneration, but 

 in a few cities they have been added as regularly paid members of 

 the corps of medical inspectors. Sixty-nine cities had dental 

 inspection conducted by dentists in 1911, and of these, 54, or 78 

 per cent, were in the North Atlantic and North Central states. 

 Their distribution by divisions was: 



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