MEDICAL INSPECTION OF SCHOOLS 



that data are found giving any sort of measure of the value of their 

 services. Almost the only direct comparison between results 

 accomplished with and without the co-operation of the nurses 

 comes from the city of Philadelphia. Data bearing on the problem 

 were presented by Dr. Samuel W. Newmayer of that city in a paper 

 entitled Evidence that the School Nurse Pays, printed in the 

 proceedings of the Fifth Annual Congress of the American School 

 Hygiene Association. 



The first set of data presented by Dr. Newmayer shows the 

 number and per cent of recommendations acted upon in four 

 schools where a nurse was at work as compared with the number 

 acted upon in four other schools where the medical inspector was 

 unaided by a nurse. This comparison is shown in Table 17. 



TABLE iy. RESULTS OBTAINED BY MEDICAL INSPECTORS AIDED AND 



NOT AIDED BY SCHOOL NURSES. EIGHT SCHOOLS, 



PHILADELPHIA, IQIO 



A comparison of the percentage figures shows that in the 

 four schools where the inspector was aided by a nurse 89 per cent 

 of the recommendations were acted upon, whereas in the four other 

 schools, where the medical inspector worked alone, only 24 per 

 cent of the recommendations resulted in action. 



Dr. Newmayer' s second series of data contrasted two sets 



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