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Social responsibility for the health of school children.

Hoag, Ernest Bryant; Terman, Lewis M.

Pages: 1 –14

This chapter addresses the social responsibility for the health of school children. The following topics are discussed: the spread of school medical work, physical defects among school children, insufficient parental guardianship of children's health, the responsibility of society, the relation...

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The scope and administration of health supervision.

Hoag, Ernest Bryant; Terman, Lewis M.

Pages: 15 –36

This chapter addresses the scope and administration of health supervision in schools. The following topics are discussed: stages in the development of school health work; the divisions of educational hygiene; outline of the scope, procedure, and administration of medical supervision; method of...

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Plans for organization for health work.

Hoag, Ernest Bryant; Terman, Lewis M.

Pages: 37 –47

Although the development of health work in the schools has been very rapid, much remains to be done to make it as effective as it ought to be. Its greatest weakness lies in the absence of standardized direction and procedure. With regard to it the most divergent beliefs and practices prevail. The...

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The school nurse: Including suggestions for health supervision by the "nurse alone" plan.

Hoag, Ernest Bryant; Terman, Lewis M.

Pages: 48 –61

This chapter addresses the role of the school nurse in health supervision. The following topics are discussed: the spread of school nursing, follow-up services conducted by school nurses, reduction of student absences, other functions of the school nurse, the influence of school nurses upon the...

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The health grading of school children by teachers.

Hoag, Ernest Bryant; Terman, Lewis M.

Pages: 62 –89

The effectiveness of any system of health supervision in the schools depends in large measure upon securing the intelligent and willing cooperation of the teachers. Physicians sometimes oppose this extension of the teacher's work into a field which they regard as one that should be reserved for a...

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A demonstration clinic for instruction in the observation of defects.

Hoag, Ernest Bryant; Terman, Lewis M.

Pages: 90 –108

For the purpose of instructing teachers and school nurses the "Demonstration Clinic" has proved of the greatest possible assistance. From fifty to one hundred and fifty pupils from various grades, preferably the third, fourth, and fifth, are assembled in the presence of all the teachers (and...

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The school medical clinic.

Hoag, Ernest Bryant; Terman, Lewis M.

Pages: 109 –124

The main purpose of this chapter is to describe a type of school clinic, already becoming numerous in England and not unknown in the United States--a clinic designed to afford more or less treatment as well as diagnosis. Cost, equipment and management are discussed. The necessity of and...

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School dentistry.

Hoag, Ernest Bryant; Terman, Lewis M.

Pages: 125 –132

First, the authors discuss the history of school dentistry. Next, the authors argue for free school dental clinics. Finally, the authors discuss the prevention of dental decay in school children. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)

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Transmissible diseases.

Hoag, Ernest Bryant; Terman, Lewis M.

Pages: 133 –147

This chapter discusses the school as a factor in the spread of contagious diseases; the school as a means of controlling contagious diseases; newer ideas about modes of infection; danger of the common cup, common towel, etc.; air is not a common source of infection; isolation of "carriers" versus...

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Transmissible diseases (continued).

Hoag, Ernest Bryant; Terman, Lewis M.

Pages: 148 –174

Discusses measles, scarlet fever, diphtheria, whooping-cough, mumps, chickenpox, and smallpox in children. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)

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