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HEALTH 



necessary, but if the entire school were properly educated in 

 health habits, and if there were a check to see that these habits, 



A properly cared for set of teeth is the result of frequent expert inspection. In certain schools, 

 oral hygienists make surveys of mouths and suggest dental treatment when necessary. 



once taught, were enforced in the home and community, there 

 would not be so many anaemic, cardiac, and tubercular cases. 

 In order to show how much education could accomplish in disease, 

 the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company and the National Tu- 

 berculosis Association conducted an experiment at Framingham, 

 Massachusetts. A campaign of education was carried on so suc- 

 cessfully that tuberculosis was reduced 69 per cent in that com- 

 munity within ten years. 



Effective education in health is evidently needed. This is par- 

 ticularly pertinent when we consider that the statistics, prepared 

 by General Crowder of the United States Army, showed that 

 33 per cent of the United States soldiers in the World War were 



