INTRODUCTION 



There is ground for encouragement in the out- 

 look for the race in the more rational modes of 

 living that each year are coming more and more 

 into vogue. In no way is this improvement 

 better evidenced than in the stress being laid 

 upon physical training and particularly upon 

 physical training in the formative period of life. 

 At this time much can be accomplished in the 

 all-round development of the growing child, and 

 in the correction of those deficiencies, which, if 

 allowed to go uncorrected, result in a fixed 

 deformity, constituting a pronounced handicap in 

 the struggle for existence. 



Medical inspection of school children, origi- 

 nally designed simply to prevent the spread of 

 infectious diseases, like all other reforms, has 

 developed far beyond the original lines mapped 

 out by those who instituted it. The author of 

 this book takes advanced ground, and, in a very 

 practical way, shows himself a pioneer in the 

 movement for child-development. 



The book is really a compend for the use of 

 school medical inspectors, physical directors, 

 teachers, parents and those concerned at all with 

 the physical well-being of children. Even a 



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