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Twenty-third Biennial Report 17 teacher. Of course, the scientist must tell us what to teach, but we think we can give the instruction better than the scientist himself. Health instruction is of little value unless the knowledge is translated into habitual conduct. The teacher working with both the parent and the child, is the only person who can deal successfully with it. Through the daily cleanliness examinations she brings about the habits of washing hands and brushing teeth. Through the socialized school lunch they form better eating and play habits. She can also supervise the efforts to improve posture with correctional exercises, make the rest periods most productive of good and improve the eating habits of undernourished children. This can only be done by persons in daily contact with the children. In the matter of immunization, the physician plays the leading part and the teacher a secondary one only. While the teacher after some preliminary training can do something in testing the eyes and ears, every child should have a thorough medical examination by a competent physician at least once every year. The most difficult part of the whole health program is to secure the correction of the defects after they have been discovered and tabulated. One way is to notify the parent of the trouble and make an estimate of what the work will be worth. The parent then takes the child to a physician for treatment. In many cases, the parent is either too poor or too hardened in his ways to give attention to the matter. In such cases the whole thing comes to a stop. The dental and health clinics for school children have done worlds of good already. I am wondering if the follow-up work will not more and more result in dental clinics in which the teeth of the smaller children are treated. This will not interfere with dentists in private practice, but will bring them in the long run more practice; because the children find out what it all means. In the same way certain other simple operations might be performed by some surgeon employed by the State. There should, of course, be left an option with the parents as to what physician will do the work or whether the work will be done at all. If the State stands ready to do it without expense to the parent, many more parents, in my opinion, will have it attended to in private practice. The schools have one justifiable complaint against the public health service. It is inclined to consider too little the value of a child's time in school. We wait until school opens and then begin feverishly to vaccinate. For two or three weeks the school is in confusion and is operated under great difficulty. Children with sore arms are irritable and cross. Many of them remain out of school. The spirit of the school is broken down and it is hard to re-establish. Furthermore, school hours are usually selected for medical examinations. Children are excluded from the public schools on account of contagious diseases, but the Sunday schools and churches go ahead. I am unable to see why a child would not catch influenza at moving picture shows as readily as in school. Schools are in session only six hours of the twenty-four, and for only 160 days out of the 365. Every day and every hour of that time should be devoted to the school's own program of activities. If remedial and immunization work could T)e carried on at hours and on days when the schools are not in session, much loss of time and unnecessary confusion could be avoided. If the schools are to do the work
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Fixed Title * | NCHH-02: Biennial Report of the North Carolina State Board of Health [1909-1972] |
Document Title | Biennial Report of the North Carolina State Board of Health [1909-1972] |
Subject Name | North Carolina. State Board of Health -- Statistics -- Periodicals. |
Subject Topical | Public health -- North Carolina -- Statistics -- Periodicals. |
Subject Topical Other | Public Health -- North Carolina. |
Description | Publication began with the 13th (1909/1910); ceased with the 44th (1970/1972) |
Creator | North Carolina. State Board of Health. |
Publisher | Raleigh : The Board, 1911- |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1928-1930 |
Identifier | NCHH-02-023 |
Form General | Periodicals |
Language | English |
Rights | This item is part of the North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection. Some materials in the Collection are protected by U.S. copyright law. This item is presented by the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for research and educational purposes. It may not be republished or distributed without permission of the Health Sciences Library. |
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Sponsor | The North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection is an open access publishing initiative of the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Financial support for the initiative was provided in part by a multi-year NC ECHO (Exploring Cultural Heritage Online) digitization grant, awarded by the State Library of North Carolina, and funded through the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA). |
Volume Number | 23 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
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Fixed Title * | Page 17 |
Document Title | Biennial Report of the North Carolina State Board of Health [1909-1972] |
Subject Name | North Carolina. State Board of Health -- Statistics -- Periodicals. |
Subject Topical | Public health -- North Carolina -- Statistics -- Periodicals. |
Subject Topical Other | Public Health -- North Carolina. |
Description | Publication began with the 13th (1909/1910); ceased with the 44th (1970/1972) |
Creator | North Carolina. State Board of Health. |
Publisher | Raleigh : The Board, 1911- |
Repository | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Health Sciences Library. |
Host | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Date | 1928-1930 |
Identifier | NCHH-02-023-0021 |
Form General | Periodicals |
Page Type | all; article |
Language | English |
Rights | This item is part of the North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection. Some materials in the Collection are protected by U.S. copyright law. This item is presented by the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for research and educational purposes. It may not be republished or distributed without permission of the Health Sciences Library. |
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Digital Collection | North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection |
Sponsor | The North Carolina History of Health Digital Collection is an open access publishing initiative of the Health Sciences Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Financial support for the initiative was provided in part by a multi-year NC ECHO (Exploring Cultural Heritage Online) digitization grant, awarded by the State Library of North Carolina, and funded through the Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA). |
Volume Number | 23 |
Page Number | 17 |
Health Discipline | Public Health |
Full Text | Twenty-third Biennial Report 17 teacher. Of course, the scientist must tell us what to teach, but we think we can give the instruction better than the scientist himself. Health instruction is of little value unless the knowledge is translated into habitual conduct. The teacher working with both the parent and the child, is the only person who can deal successfully with it. Through the daily cleanliness examinations she brings about the habits of washing hands and brushing teeth. Through the socialized school lunch they form better eating and play habits. She can also supervise the efforts to improve posture with correctional exercises, make the rest periods most productive of good and improve the eating habits of undernourished children. This can only be done by persons in daily contact with the children. In the matter of immunization, the physician plays the leading part and the teacher a secondary one only. While the teacher after some preliminary training can do something in testing the eyes and ears, every child should have a thorough medical examination by a competent physician at least once every year. The most difficult part of the whole health program is to secure the correction of the defects after they have been discovered and tabulated. One way is to notify the parent of the trouble and make an estimate of what the work will be worth. The parent then takes the child to a physician for treatment. In many cases, the parent is either too poor or too hardened in his ways to give attention to the matter. In such cases the whole thing comes to a stop. The dental and health clinics for school children have done worlds of good already. I am wondering if the follow-up work will not more and more result in dental clinics in which the teeth of the smaller children are treated. This will not interfere with dentists in private practice, but will bring them in the long run more practice; because the children find out what it all means. In the same way certain other simple operations might be performed by some surgeon employed by the State. There should, of course, be left an option with the parents as to what physician will do the work or whether the work will be done at all. If the State stands ready to do it without expense to the parent, many more parents, in my opinion, will have it attended to in private practice. The schools have one justifiable complaint against the public health service. It is inclined to consider too little the value of a child's time in school. We wait until school opens and then begin feverishly to vaccinate. For two or three weeks the school is in confusion and is operated under great difficulty. Children with sore arms are irritable and cross. Many of them remain out of school. The spirit of the school is broken down and it is hard to re-establish. Furthermore, school hours are usually selected for medical examinations. Children are excluded from the public schools on account of contagious diseases, but the Sunday schools and churches go ahead. I am unable to see why a child would not catch influenza at moving picture shows as readily as in school. Schools are in session only six hours of the twenty-four, and for only 160 days out of the 365. Every day and every hour of that time should be devoted to the school's own program of activities. If remedial and immunization work could T)e carried on at hours and on days when the schools are not in session, much loss of time and unnecessary confusion could be avoided. If the schools are to do the work |
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Article Title | The Relationship Of Education To Public Health |
Article Author | A. T. Allen |
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