Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-05-27 | Page 22 | Health Supervision is Boon to [Illegible]

lisHif Dr. Samuel G. Paul Gi$5 Statistics of School Cases Treated. Salt Lake System Sanie Adopted at Many pJ 1 grcssive Cities. Hare stallsiloa. which a: 'i-St . . , not reveal tho p.!-,, coA P health, tho dcllmiue.KT unci the re'.-i: i i iivvd chil.ircn of i.,c city thnni's ""tfS vemivo measure taken by the Clt b. of health .lurlns only lour yea-', if) I Ken tHhuhtle.l hy IV. Samuel ' ti.' r I I city health co!nn:ls;:oiier. t I These figures show that SI1K.0 H RdKnoui.s of 7CT ehlklren 'have ;,,.',, 1 moved by hoard of healm p,vsiP' ''nsea '' h:.,i tm,.M!3 :.lve , f treated, seventy-two ehlldi-en with J tlve hearing and .1,17 with defeetivevik have l.een wired for: l!79 have h i il teeth filled and 5M nave Ixen trrit.i I unelaaslfled dlw.lRev. Tho mmes n:a,!e 13.874 vlnlt.s to homes nnj 7isS ,ff enls have visited sehooia to 0l,r nurses coneerniiiK tne health of t , ehi'dreu. At the eli.de, twenty.u,,.,, cratlona and a! the county )m tw enty-four operations have ' ij,.en ' formed, and eighteen eoinplete um o.xiiminatintis have heen aiven V,i f .suit of the work of the nui-sic'. tuVn'v private physicians have heen roiwillf parents and private dcnlishs Ik.vo J work on the teolh of 100 children. ) Nurse Guards Health. " The system of supervUing the licalt elnklren adopled In Suit LVnt hi., I 1 tried and adopted hy the largest ami ,ivP most prosre.-.r.ve elth s In the , illC Vr Paul states This cysten, eon,, . 1 of huvlng at each school a trainel iitf who hae under her constant tuperv l" the health of all the children. In .aa 1 Illness, she Inver.tiKretes to see if ilc IfA child has the proper care. If a c proven to have some phviieal difci w can ho remedied, the nurse lake 'itOf matter up with Ihe parents. If l ie 1 enls prove unahle to hnve t(,0 ,! properly cared for. then (lie child Is tu to puhlic health headquarters uiirt If the necessary treatment. In nil et'i IVIB the nurse docs not cease her supcrvii until an adjust men t s nmde "Tho efficacy of this svs'.em i 1jCS hdns proven," Dr. Paul said yosleii I rememiier, not su long aso m pu, delphla thp system was to put a tlol H' in charge of the health of the putuli each, school. He would examine n child, and, if medical attention u.is (o'j necessary, a written statement of child'B needs was sent hv him In parents. I will venture to say lli nine out of ten cases no resulla lowed. In many eases the parents j..lV0t not negligent they simply could noi "" v ford to Rive the child the neoe::ary mfSDt cal attention. .., System Reversed. i ks "fn Philadelphia they have riwof-C1" their system and Instead of medlrul .(nrt aminers at each echool they hau inn' Now their system Is essentially the nt'tilut as ours. In one town that i? on n ci where they previously had forty inert n T.-a examiners and ten nurses they have It nurses and ten medical examiners. HON "Many parents cannot tffoH the mi .. cal attention they know their child jJi::; need. A parent may know his child adenoids or had tonsils, but yet tie "' not be ahle, on account of financht c:te:si ftculties, to pive tne child the 'fe , , attention. However, with our sysk-ii, llyl' child need ro vithout medical serv . 5r "For example, just recently we Inn case of a mother with three children. 1 of the children needed to have their t fills removed. The mother was a wit and was only making $75 a tnont'i. ' v.0 operations would have cost her SK)f', it had not heen for the aid proffered T.o the city these children would eitliT ll had to ko without medical attendsne vrc the mother would have had to Ki'-c ck'd one-ninth of her yearly earningrfr c-m;li; liave been plunged into deht. '' Timely Attention Vitai. ;( "No one can estimate tiio untold liei" -;( aches, the humiliation, the bt'temeFs, 11. Xe! discouragement we are saving eur c p;r; dren by such a system. A child f adenoids, for example, falls off in m.'a U he loses sleep and appetite; hi. t r v clency is cut dowti. Most iike in- i , j. to make his srade. He la thmiKtit r'.l . ' '' by his teachers, his schoolmates and- 4F(1 parents, when all he needs to uaV- 1 ;'i::j( a new child, mentally and physically v a the removal of the growths whlisi,. stuntim? his development. : CI "By watchiiis our children as they f M.c and giving them neee.-sary niedirrd atl 3.,,,, tion at a timeiy moment, we nice ' city schools much retardation, the 1 munitv much delinoueney, the iari-... much worry and the child suffering JM humiliation." Th