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Show HEALTH EXAMS ARE RESUMED IN GRADE SCHOOLS Health examinations are being carried on in the schools of Springville, with a special feature of the examinations being a check of hearing, made possible by the use of an audiometer which belongs be-longs to the state health department. depart-ment. All fourth and first grade students are being given a careful examination, with their parents present. A series of innoculations will begin be-gin and it is expected typhoid fever, as has been the custom in the past. The mobile unit for chest X-rays for tuberculosis has already-been used this year in part of the schools of Nebo district, and will be used in the other towns and schools in the near future. Several children from this region re-gion are being cared for by the Crippled Children's Service of the state through clinics now being run weekly at Utah Valley hospital. hos-pital. Some of the children now under treatment were first found to be suffering from rheumatic fever and other ailments through regular school physical examinations. |