MEDICAL INSPECTION OF SCHOOLS 

 EXCLUSION CARD, BROCKTON, MASSACHUSETTS 



Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 



CONTAGIOUS DISEASE. 



NOTICE TO PARENT OR GUARDIAN. 

 In accordance with Chapter 502 of the Acts of 1906, you 



are hereby notified that 



has been examined by me as School Physician, and found to 



have symptoms of 



This child is excluded from the schools until he brings a 

 statement from a regular practitioner certifying his complete re- 

 covery. 



School Physician. 



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The monthly report of the medical inspector of the same city 

 is also a good specimen of forms which have given satisfaction in 

 simple systems, and which might well be adapted for use in any 

 locality where the number of cases handled is comparatively small 

 and the pupils are individually known to the school authorities 

 so that it is easy to keep track of them. 



Large systems require somewhat more complicated organiza- 

 tion and records. Efficiency and economy of labor demand that 

 printed forms be provided wherever their use obviates the neces- 

 sity for any considerable amount of writing. The same considera- 

 tion demands that on these forms underlining or checking of printed 

 words be used wherever possible, instead of the filling in of blank 

 spaces. The object is to attain the desired results with a minimum 

 of clerical work consistent with efficiency. This is particularly 

 important when the clerical work is to be performed by a high- 

 priced man, as in the case of a high-class physician. 



Let us consider a case where the school physician has 

 examined a child and found him to have unmistakable symptoms 



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