MEDICAL INSPECTION OF SCHOOLS 



COMMUNITY EDUCATION THROUGH PRINTED BULLETINS 



Nearly all well developed systems have some form of printed 

 bulletin for instructing parents as to the methods and aims of 

 medical inspection, the importance of conditions found, and 

 steps necessary to remedy them. Examples of such instructions 

 with respect to the care of pediculosis are to be found in the 

 chapter on contagious disease, while similar instructions in regard 

 to certain phases of dental work will appear in the chapter on 

 dental inspection. 



Quite the best series of such bulletins is that prepared by 

 Dr. Ernest Bryant Hoag of California and widely used in the 

 cities of that state. These bulletins are in the form of two-page 

 leaflets measuring 3>x ^A inches, which are designed for distribu- 

 tion among parents and children. They give in condensed and 

 effective form authoritative information concerning the impor- 

 tance of the more common physical defects. Several of them 

 are reproduced in Dr. Hoag's excellent little book The Health In- 

 dex of Children. This method of public education is so effective 

 and Dr. Hoag's Health Pamphlets are so admirably designed to 

 serve their purpose that two of them are reproduced herewith. 

 Another of the same series dealing with the teeth is reproduced 

 in the chapter on dental inspection. 



HEALTH PAMPHLET NO. i 



by 

 Dr. Ernest Bryant Hoag 



THE RESULTS OF NOSE, THROAT AND EAR TROUBLES IN 

 CHILDREN 



An examination of school children shows that many of 

 them suffer from nose, throat and ear troubles. Probably 

 at least 25% of our children in the schools of the United States 

 have such defects. Why this is so we do not know. 



Parents are very likely to be unfamiliar with these con- 

 ditions. Often they do not know when their own children 

 are afflicted in this way. It is the business of the School Med- 

 ical Examiner, employed by the Boards of Education or 

 Boards of Health, to discover children who need medical at- 

 tention. 



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