MEDICAL INSPECTION OF SCHOOLS 



502 of the Acts of 1906, and it became a law of the state of Mass- 

 achusetts on the first day of September, 1906. It provides: 



APPOINTMENT OF SCHOOL PHYSICIANS, ETC. 



Section i. The school committee of every city and 

 town in the Commonwealth shall appoint one or more school 

 physicians, shall assign one to each public school within its 

 city or town, and shall provide them with all proper facilities 

 for the performance of their duties as prescribed in this act: 

 provided, however, that in cities wherein the board of health 

 is already maintaining or shall hereafter maintain substantially 

 such medical inspection as this act requires, the board of 

 health shall appoint and assign the school physician. 



EXAMINATION AND DIAGNOSIS TO BE MADE 



Section 2. Every school physician shall make a prompt 

 examination and diagnosis of all children referred to him as 

 hereinafter provided, and such further examination of teachers, 

 janitors, and school buildings as in his opinion the protection 

 of the health of the pupils may require. 



AUTHORITY OF SCHOOL COMMITTEES, ETC. 



Section 3. The school committee shall cause to be 

 referred to a school physician for examination and diagnosis 

 every child returning to school without a certificate from the 

 board of health after absence on account of illness or from 

 unknown cause; and every child in the schools under its 

 jurisdiction who shows signs of being in ill health or of suffering 

 from infectious or contagious disease, unless he is at once ex- 

 cluded from school by the teacher; except that in the case of 

 schools in remote and isolated situations the school commit- 

 tee may make such other arrangements as may best carry out 

 the purposes of this act. 



NOTICE TO BE SENT TO PARENT OR GUARDIAN 



Section 4. The school committee shall cause notice of 

 the disease or defects, if any, from which any child is found 

 to be suffering to be sent to his parent or guardian. Whenever 

 a child shows symptoms of smallpox, scarlet fever, measles, 

 chickenpox, tuberculosis, diphtheria or influenza, tonsilitis, 

 whooping cough, mumps, scabies, or trachoma, he shall be 

 sent home immediately, or as soon as safe and proper con- 



