SIGNIFICANT FACTS 



rate is about 30 cents per child per year, and this may probably 

 be regarded as a minimum cost for adequate and efficient work. 



In foreign countries complete physical examinations are 

 usually conducted only two or three times in the course of the 

 child's school career. In this country most cities attempt to 

 conduct such examinations every year and frequently fall far short 

 of accomplishing their aim. A conservative standard efficiently 

 maintained is better than a high ideal that is never reached. 



In American cities having relatively efficient systems of 

 medical inspection, the number of defective pupils receiving 

 remedial treatment as a result of the examinations ranges from 

 about 10 per cent to about 50 per cent. In England the work is 

 more efficient and from 20 per cent to 70 per cent of the defective 

 children receive remedial treatment from physicians, oculists, or 

 dentists. 



Medical inspection is essential in country districts as well 

 as in large cities, and in rich communities as well as in poor ones. 

 The locality has yet to be discovered in which the medical inspec- 

 tion of school children is unnecessary or undesirable. 



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