INDEX 



EDUCATION, UNITED STATES COMMIS- 

 SIONER OF: enrollment figures 

 from report of, 42; attendance 

 figures taken from reports of, 103 



EGYPT: medical inspection in, 12 



ELMIRA, New York: dental conditions 

 among school children in, 115; 

 dental work in, 88, 123; no charges 

 for treatment in dental infirmary, 

 126; running expenses of dental 

 clinics in, 125; study of defects 

 among retarded children in, 155, 

 156 



ELY, ISLE OF: treatments in, 99 



ENFORCEMENT: provision for, which 

 new laws should contain, 172. See 

 also Compulsory Action 



ENGLAND: children per school dentist 

 in, 126; dental work for school 

 children in, 114, 119; fines imposed 

 on parents of school children in, 

 86; frequency of examinations re- 

 quired by board of education in, 41 ; 

 medical inspection in, 10; pioneer 

 in employment of school nurses, 

 ii ; presence of parents at ex- 

 aminations of children in, 73, 75, 

 76; salaries of school physicians in, 

 109-110; treatments in, 98, 99, 100 



ENROLLMENT: and exclusions, in eight 

 cities, 33; and physical examina- 

 tions, in nine cities, 41; figures, 

 from report of United States Com- 

 missioner of Education, 34, 42 



EPIDEMICS: among school children in 

 Boston, 13; checked by medical 

 inspection, 2, 34. See also Con- 

 tagious Diseases; Exclusions 



EQUIPMENT: and supplies for dental 

 clinics, 125; school nurses, 112; 

 school physicians, in 



ESKIMOS: teeth of, 116 



ESSEX, England: treatments in, 99 



EUROPEANS: teeth of, 116 



EVERETT, Massachusetts: directions 

 and prescriptions used in, 27-29 



EXAMINATIONS, PHYSICAL: by physi- 

 cians, in United States, 19, 20; 

 cities conducting, by groups of 



EXAMINATIONS, PHYSICAL (Continued] 

 states, 36; conduct of, 37; cost of, 

 43, 101-110; forms needed in con- 

 nection with, 52, 58; frequency of, 

 40, 41 ; in Australia and Tasmania, 

 12; in Great Britain, 10; in Paris, 

 7; medical inspection extended to 

 include, 3; need of, summarized, 

 61; new laws should provide for, 

 172; placed in hands of school 

 physicians by state laws, 164; 

 presence of parents at, 73, 75, 76; 

 results of, in cities of United States, 

 38,39; results of , in New York, 40; 

 time required for, 43; theory and 

 origin of, 35; Wiesbaden system, 9 



EXAMINATIONS, VISION AND HEARING. 

 See Vision and Hearing Tests 



EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN: special classes 

 for, in Germany, 10; use of term, 3 



EXCLUSION NOTICES to parents, and 

 their use, 21, 22, 24-27 



EXCLUSIONS: diseases for which chil- 

 dren are excluded, 30, 31; in 

 various cities of United States, 

 32-34, 143, 144; in New York 

 City, 63, 65; reduced by school 

 nurses' work, 63,65. See also Con- 

 tagious Diseases; Epidemics 



EXEMPT AND NON-EXEMPT CHILDREN in 

 Philadelphia: defectiveness among, 

 152, 153 



EYE AND EAR EXAMINATIONS. See 

 Vision and Hearing Tests 



EYE CLINIC: in Cleveland, 88 



EYES, DEFECTIVE: among children in 

 different cities, 38; among chil- 

 dren promoted and not promoted 

 in South Manchester, 155; one 

 of four commonest classes of de- 

 fects, 37, 39; treated in English 

 communities, 87, 99; treated in 

 Lowell and Somerville, 97; treated 

 in Pasadena, 94. See also Vision; 

 Eyesight 



EYESIGHT: directions for testing in 

 Massachusetts, 45, 47; health 

 pamphlet regarding, 82; Snellen 

 chart for testing, 49. See also 

 Vision 



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