MEDICAL INSPECTION OF SCHOOLS 



securing the co-operation of parents for the correction of defects, 

 the Massachusetts law requiring that notices of the results of 

 inspections be sent, while the English memorandum recommends 

 the summoning of parents to be present at the inspections. In 

 the English statute there is no express provision as to the 

 frequency of physical examinations, but as has been stated, the 

 memorandum of the board of education prescribes three examina- 

 tions as necessary during the school life of the pupil. In the 

 Massachusetts statute an examination of every pupil at least 

 once in every year for defective sight or hearing and any other 

 physical disabilities, is provided for. The sight and hearing tests 

 are given by teachers, while the other examinations are conducted 

 by physicians. 



These are the leading statutes ot Europe and America on 

 this subject. At the close of 1912 the American statute will 

 have been in effect for six years and the English statute for five. 

 Both of these pieces of legislation may therefore be considered as 

 having passed through the experimental stage. 



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