MAKING MEDICAL INSPECTION EFFECTIVE 



to the Principal or County Superintendent, who will forward it to the 

 State Bureau of C. and A. P. at the State House, Denver. 



"When the Bureau of C. & A. P. receives a Failure Notice accom- 

 panied by a written statement of inability to pay, etc., it will investigate 

 and assist. 



"When the Bureau receives a second Failure Notice it will send 

 an officer who will first consult with the Teacher, if possible with the 

 Principal or County Superintendent, and acting under the direction of 

 the Bureau will take charge of the case. " 



Regarding action under this law, the report of the Colorado 

 State Superintendent of Public Instruction for 1909-10 has this 

 to say: 



"Out of the 41,546 cases of defectiveness reported to the State 

 Superintendent of Public Instruction as having been discovered, and pre- 

 sumably reported to the parents of the children, 221 cases were reported 

 by teachers to the State Bureau of Child and Animal Protection for 

 failure of parents to have the medical examination indicated by the 

 teachers' examination made. Whether this was the total number of 

 cases which should have been reported we have no means of knowing. 

 In the absence of further information it may be assumed that it does not 

 depart far from the total which should have been referred. 



"With one exception the parents in all these cases were induced 

 by letter or by the visit of our officer to do whatever the children's con- 

 dition required. In the one case where it was necessary to bring the 

 parents into court the child's throat was nearly closed by enlarged tonsils 

 and his health seriously affected. At the trial the father was sentenced 

 to thirty days' imprisonment." 



The New Jersey law, passed also in 1909, provides as follows: 



"If the cause for exclusion is such that it can be remedied, and 

 the parent, guardian or other person having control of the child excluded 

 as aforesaid shall fail or neglect within a reasonable time to have the 

 cause for such exclusion removed, such parent, guardian or other person 

 shall be proceeded against, and, upon conviction, be punishable as a dis- 

 orderly person. " 



No record of action under this provision of the law has been 

 found. Neither the report of the New Jersey Superintendent 

 of Public Instruction for 1909-10 nor any of the 21 reports from 

 county superintendents, or the 30 reports from city superintend- 



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