RURAL HEALTH PHYSICAL 



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HEALTH WORK IN CITY AND RURAL SCHOOLS OF THE 



CMTKl) STATES 



ACTIVITY. FOR CITY CHILDREN 



Medical inspection laws Mandatory for cities 

 in 23 States only in 12 States 



Mandatory laws 

 Permissive laws 



Apply to all cities 

 Enforced in most cities 



Medical inspection 



practiced In over 400 cities 



Dental inspection by 



dentists In 69 cities 



Dental clinics 



In 50 cities 



Clinics for eye, nose, 

 throat and other de- 

 fects In cities 



Nurses 



Open air classes 



750 in 135 citiea 

 In cities only 



Athletics and recrea- Virtually all cities and 



tion; organi/ed with large towns 

 appropriate facilities 

 and equipment 



\Y arm lunches in In over 90 cities in 21 



schools States 



FOR COUNTRY CHILDREN 



Mandatory for rural 



schools in 7 States 



In 7 States 



In 6 of the 13 States 

 having such laws 



In 13 States, in parts 

 of 130 counties 



Permitted in 2 States, 

 but not yet provided 



In one rural county 

 ( St. John's County, 

 Fla.) 



None 



In 12-20 rural districts 



Little provision 

 rural schools 



In a few scattered 

 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 rnUic Health, Vol. VI, pp. 554- 

 f).-,H, June, 1916. 



