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to teach our students. We have similar 

 symposia on the tuberculosis question. I 

 enclose herewith copy of that which was 

 given this year. The same sort of thing is 

 done in the matter of milk supply, its sani- 

 tary aspects, etc. At the present time I 

 have been instructed by the board of re- 

 gents to report upon a public-health school 

 here in our university and expect to report 

 a definite mechanism within the next short 

 time. 



Dean George F. James, College of Educa- 

 tion. 



We have not yet worked out a plan of 

 cooperation between our medical college 

 and the college of education, although we 

 are interchanging some lectures at the 

 present time. Some of the medical faculty 

 have been assisting in our work in school 

 hygiene and some of our men have been 

 speaking occasionally to the medical stu- 

 dents on conditions which seemed helpful 

 for them to know in regard to the schools. 

 The University of Wisconsin, Madison, 



Wis. Dean M. V. O'Shea, Department 



of Education. 



In this department none whatever, al- 

 though I earnestly hope such courses may 

 be offered within the next two or three 

 years. 

 Dean Charles R. Bardeen, Department of 



Pharmacology and Toxicology. 



In the department of physiology a spe- 

 cial course is offered for prospective teach- 

 ers of that subject in high schools, normal 

 schools or colleges. In the department of 

 anatomy a special course is offered for stu- 

 dents preparing for teaching physical 

 training. In the department of bacteriol- 

 ogy and hygiene courses are offered in these 

 subjects open to teachers. In the other 

 departments of the medical school no spe- 

 cific teachers' courses are offered, although 

 occasionally special training is given indi- 

 viduals who may desire to teach. So far as 



I know, no courses are offered in the de- 

 partment of pedagogy for the benefit of 

 physicians or medical students, or nurses 

 who are or intend to become inspectors of 

 schools. Many of our medical students do 

 some teaching after completing the two 

 years of the medical work which we offer 

 before going elsewhere to complete their 

 medical course. All such prospective 

 teachers, if they intend teaching in Wis- 

 consin, have to take some courses in the de- 

 partments of education on the principles 

 of pedagogy. In general I should say that 

 public school teachers should have more 

 acquaintance with preventive medicine 

 than most of them have at present, and 

 that we should probably look forward here 

 to developing special training of this char- 

 acter, although little is done at present. I 

 shall be glad to hear the results of your 

 inquiries in order that we may have data 

 from which to derive methods along these 

 lines. I feel that we have at the Univer- 

 sity of Wisconsin, at the present time, little 

 along these lines which would be of value 

 to you. 

 The State University of Iowa, Iowa City, 



Iowa. Director Frederick C. Bolton, the 



School of Education. 



I regret very much that we have no satis- 

 factory data to report concerning the rela- 

 tion between the college of medicine and 

 the department of education. There is an 

 entirely cordial feeling existing between 

 the faculty in the medical college and the 

 department of education. Several of the 

 faculty members are much interested in 

 our work in education, and we are cer- 

 tainly interested in many phases of their 

 work. There is a movement on foot to es- 

 tablish a psychopathic hospital, the activ- 

 ities of which will include some phase of 

 educational work. It will include the 

 training of defective children. Some of 

 the members of the faculty of the college 



