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Show HEALTH CHECK OF CHILDREN URGED HERE On the first day of school next fall, all new first graders will be clean and neat. How healthy will their bodies be ? You parents who will see to it that your child goes to school on that first day clean and neat and with the proper equipment would no doubt feel neglectful if you did not attend to all these things. But are you giving the same amount of thought and care to the physical condition of your child? Chief among physical defects that may retard a child's progress at school are bad teeth, poor eyesight and large or diseased tonsils. The teacher of today is wide awake to the fact that many a child who must repeat a year's work in school does so because of poor eyesight, bad hearing or some focus of infection that could be remedied. Nowadays we pay attention to the fact that the whole child goes to school his body as well as his mind. It is human nature to see no flaws and defects in your own children. You may hear that out of every hundred children in any city, town or county about ten need glasses and that three out of every hundred have serious defective de-fective hearing in both ears, but you naturally think of those defects de-fects in connection with the children chil-dren of other parents. Are you sure YOUR child's eyes are right? Can he hear well?. Does he breathe through his nose? Has he good teeth? Does he stand erect? Is he growing? Is he well nourished ? It " may be that your child does not require correction of defect or of habit but it is well that you make sure by having hav-ing him looked over by a doctor. And after that inspection have your child examined once every year to make sure he remains in good health. An ounce of prevention pre-vention is worth a pound of cure. In order to assist you parents so that your child may start to school next fall with a healthy body, the doctors and dentists of this area are cooperating with the state and. national health departments de-partments in having pre-school roundups. By this method, . all children expecting to start school next year, are given free physical examinations by a local medical doctor and dentist and are protected pro-tected against diphtheria and smallpox if the parents desires. The physical defects are not corrected cor-rected in these conferences but the parent is advised whether or. not the child needs further medW cal or dental attention. The funds for this purpose are provided in a large part by the federal government gov-ernment and are limited to use in the more rural areas of the country. , |