APPENDIX I 



SUGGESTIONS TO TEACHERS AND SCHOOL PHYSI- 

 CIANS REGARDING MEDICAL INSPECTION 



Issued by the Massachusetts Board of Education 



COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS 

 STATE HOUSE, BOSTON, Jan. 23, 1907 



In order to render the medical inspection required by chapter 502, 

 Acts of 1906, effective and uniform throughout the State, His Excel- 

 lency Governor Guild appointed a committee to prepare a circular of 

 advice to the school physicians of the State. 



This committee consisted of Dr. Henry P. Walcott, Dr. Charles 

 Harrington and Dr. Julian A. Mead, representing the State Board of 

 Health; Mrs. Ella Lyman Cabot, Mr. George I. Aldrich and Mr. George 

 H. Martin, representing the Board of Education; and Dr. Robert W. 

 Lovett, Dr. Harold Williams and Dr. W. H. Devine, representing the 

 medical profession. 



A sub-committee of this body arranged for conferences with the 

 heads of departments and others connected with the medical schools and 

 hospitals in and about Boston, and with physicians who have had ex- 

 perience in school inspection. These gentlemen have given freely of their 

 time and thought, and have furnished to the committee the suggestions 

 contained in this circular. 



These suggestions cover the ground included in the clause in section 

 5 of the law: "The school committee of every city and town shall cause 

 every child in the public schools to be separately and carefully tested 

 and examined at least once in every school year, to ascertain whether 

 he is suffering from defective sight or hearing, or from any other dis- 

 ability or defect tending to prevent his receiving the full benefit of his 

 school work, or requiring a modification of the school work in order to 

 prevent injury to the child or to secure the best educational results." 



The Board of Education issues this circular in the assurance that 

 it represents the highest professional authority in the specialties covered 

 by the law, and commends it to the careful attention of all teachers, 

 school physicians and other school officers. 



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