Salt Lake Telegram | 1949-05-21 | Page 5 | P-TA to Boost Health Clinics

p. p TA P-TA T A to 10 Boost Health Clinics Plans to Improve the efficiency with which some children entering entering en en- I en-I city schools for lor the first time in the fall will be given preschool preschool preschool pre pre- school health examinations were announced Saturday after a meetIng meeting meet- meet Ing lug of the Salt Lake District Council Council Coun Coun- cil cli of Teachers Parent-Teachers Dr James Z Davis public health commissioner To eliminate congestion at summer summer summer sum sum- mer health roundup clinics late Inthe in inthe the hc summer roundup chairmen have been appointed from each elementary T P-T TA P-TA A to survey as assigned assigned assigned as- as signed areas and make appointments appointments appointments appoint appoint- I ments for each child entering school to be examined either by his family physician or at a school clinic under one of three plans Set 42 Clinics The announcement was made by Mrs Urs Almaran Cowan T P-T TA P-TA A district district district dis dis- dis- dis council president who said 4 42 clinics will be conducted between July 2 and Aug 30 Major emphasis this year vIll Nill be placed on a plan to have private private vate physicians conduct the examinations examinations exam- exam nations Mrs Cowan said Under this plan parents may register a achild achild achild child with the roundup chairman obtain an official health chart have the child chUd examined by a physician physician physician phy phy- and return the chart with treatment of remedial defects re recorded recorded te- te corded to the school when the child enters i Move Faster The second plan calls for registering registering regis regis- the child with the roundup chairman mal making ing an appointment for examination at the school clinic having remedial defects treated by a private physician and the he treatment recorded on the health chart and returning the chart when the child enters school The third plan is slated to care for or examinations conducted durIng during dur- dur ing ng the winter and will be only for children not in the city or others not able to take the examinations during luring the summer