MEDICAL INSPECTION OF SCHOOLS 



it is true that only 443 systems, or about 42 per cent of all, had 

 regularly organized work, 722 systems, or nearly 69 per cent, were 

 carrying on some sort of medical inspection. 



TABLE 6. STATUS OF MEDICAL INSPECTION IN 1,046 MUNICIPAL 



SCHOOL SYSTEMS IN THE UNITED STATES. IQII. (THE x's 



INDICATE FEATURES INCLUDED.) 



Grand total 1,046 



SUMMARY. Medical inspection is provided for by law in 

 something less than half of the American states. Regularly 

 organized systems of medical inspection are in force in something 

 less than half of the American cities, while a beginning has been 

 made in nearly three-fourths of them. About four-fifths of the 

 443 cities having systems of medical inspection employ school phy- 

 sicians, almost a quarter of them employ school nurses, and in 

 about one city in seven school dentists are employed. 



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