RESULTS 



The St. Louis report for 1910-11 states that during that 

 school year the number of cases treated by family physicians or 

 dentists was 825 as compared with 1,088 cases treated at free 

 dispensaries or clinics. 



TREATMENT FOLLOWING EXAMINATIONS BY TEACHERS 



All the reports thus far cited have been of results following 

 more or less complete physical examinations by physicians. 

 Two Massachusetts cities, Lowell and Somerville, offer figures 

 bearing on treatments resulting from teachers' examinations of 

 sight and hearing. Lowell reports that of 922 cases of defective 

 eyes and ears referred to parents in 1910, 349, or 37.8 per cent, 

 were "professionally treated/' Somerville' s percentages of "pro- 

 fessionally treated" cases during five successive years are as 

 follows : 



TABLE 27. PERCENTAGES OF CASES OF DEFECTS OF EYES AND EARS 

 TREATED PROFESSIONALLY. SOMERVILLE, MASS., 1906-10 



It is evident that a larger proportion of cases received 

 attention in the first year in Somerville than have ever been 

 treated since. The result is the more difficult to explain, since 

 the percentage of children examined who were found defective, 

 both in eyes and ears, has steadily decreased from year to year. 



Comparison of the Somerville and Lowell percentages of eye 

 and ear treatments with the data from other cities already cited 

 reveals the fact that Lowell's results approximate those secured 

 in Harrisburg and Pasadena, while Somerville's are far behind. 

 This contrast may be due to the fact that Somerville is the only 

 one of the group which does not employ a nurse or home visitor 

 to follow up cases needing attention. 

 7 97 



