| Show united slates states public Iffe health alth service preparing the child for school presently frequently the parents according to the united states public health service may suspect that that the child Is rg from some slight defect in vision ir and 4 there may be obvious visual disturbances which should be corrected children with such conditions should be taken to an as eoon oon as there Is evl evi de dence of trouble if glasses are re u will take some time tor for the child to become accustomed to earing searing them and the habit ot of ua US ira them should be acquired belore before the child enters school however the chief advantage ot of early correction of visual defects defect Is that it usually requires less treat treatment ment and in some cases such early treatment may cure the concila condition ion and secure for the chud child normal vision which might have been impossible had been delayed AM Alt although ough lough ue va e may have given our out children every attention trained hem hern i habits ol 01 cleanliness and good personal hygiene led fed them the proper food and corrected so 0 o far as possible all physical defects there yet remains a very import important matter to be considered rumely the prevention ol 01 a possible attack ot of smallpox or ria in this day and age it Is 13 almost criminal neglect on our part to fall to see that our children are protected against these preventable diseases the best tine time to start stra their im munt on treatment Is after the child Is six months of age the re action to the treatment is milder at this age although it la is just as effective but shat hat la 13 more important especially in the case of Is that they are immune to the infection at the time in life shen hen the disease Is most fatal to them statistics prove that the death ate from diphtheria ts Is much greate among child children childen en attacked before they are favl years of age there are very tew few states in which children are admired admi ted to the public schools without evidence of vaccination against smallpox and many are now requiring diphtheria immunization id la fact many communities are now practically tree free from diphtheria epidemics due chiefly to the fact that they require diphtheria immunization ot of all of 01 their school children A comparison of our present elementary schools with those of at only a few decades ago will show a it much younger age group completing the elementary coure roune this probably not due solely to better trained personnel and school systems but may in many mamy instances be due du in considerable part to the tact fact that prevent preventative athe medicine taken its place in the hool hoot program agram attendance Is n regular the children are in bet condition and consequently there Is less loss of time from school oric due to illness i thus e as parents can ap ampre 1 elate clate the privilege and that is ours to see that our are in every sense of the properly property prepared pt pared for or school school affords real competition early defeat Is 13 often the cause of failure and arid a desire to cult quit the race we surely will sill not allow our children to start their race in life with a handicap which Is the result of our own negligence but will see that our best ts are expended to prepare them thera properly for their first days of school |
