RURAL HEALTH PHYSICAL 197 



HEALTH WORK IN CITY AND RURAL SCHOOLS OF THE 

 UNITED STATES 



ACTIVITY. FOB CITY CHILDREN FOR COUNTRY CHILDREN 



Medical inspection laws Mandatory for cities Mandatory for rural 

 in 23 States only in 12 States schools in 7 States 



Mandatory laws Apply to all cities In 7 States 



Permissive laws Enforced in most cities In 6 of the 13 States 



having such laws 



Medical inspection In 13 States, in parts 



practiced In over 400 cities of 130 counties 



Dental inspection by Permitted in 2 States, 



dentists In 69 cities but not yet provided 



Dental clinics In 50 cities In one rural county 



( St. John's County, 

 Fla.) 



Clinics for eye, nose, 

 throat and other de- 

 fects In cities None 



Nurses 750 in* 135 cities In 12-20 rural districts 



Open air classes In cities only 



Athletics and recrea- Virtually all cities and Little provision in 

 tion; organized with large towns rural schools 



appropriate facilities 

 and equipment 



Warm lunches in In over 90 cities in 21 In a few scattered 

 schools States schools in 9 States 



RURAL SANITATION: DEFINITION, FIELD, PRIN- 

 CIPLES, METHODS, AND COSTS 1 



W. S. RANKIN, M. D. 



THE word sanitation refers to civic life ; 'the term rural sanita- 

 tion refers to rural civic life; the constituted and the common 



i Adapted from American Journal of Public Health, Vol. VI, pp. 554- 

 558, June, 1916. 



