MEDICAL INSPECTION OF SCHOOLS 



meaning. What the figures really show is that a large proportion 

 of the children are found to have defects serious enough to need 

 recording and to require attention from a physician, dentist, or 

 oculist. Nevertheless, the defect so recorded is frequently nothing 

 more serious than one or more carious teeth. 



TABLE 13. RESULTS OF PHYSICAL EXAMINATIONS OF SCHOOL 

 CHILDREN, NEW YORK, N. Y., IQI I 



It must be remembered, too, in this connection that the 

 perfect human animal is exceedingly rare. The figures do not 

 mean that our schools are filled with physical wrecks. They do 

 mean that the results of examinations prove beyond doubt the 

 need for finding out the facts and taking steps to have the defects 

 remedied. Experience with the publication of results of medical 

 inspection demonstrates no less clearly the imperative need for 

 moderation of statement in making the results public. 



FREQUENCY OF EXAMINATIONS 



American practice differs from that in vogue abroad in 

 providing, as a rule, for the physical examination of each child 

 annually instead of at less frequent intervals. In Germany a 



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