| Show H State Stat Chi Child ow d Welfare W f t r Work f 1 Contributes Good Results hInS In Safeguarding J g St Students d 41 i f Department pa m nt of Public Instruction Issues Report on Progress t 10 in Various Divisions of Endea Endeavor or I I 1 V Is your our fit tit to enter school V There Thero Is a tremendous In hi Ii his from the frI fre tree when hen he hc Is taken V but ut of door to lo which he hi ht has beon bean accustomed and placed under und tiie the Uie more or leo s les-s s repression of th ti tho thoi ticho i chool hool cho l. l Therefore the tho question Thc law of Utah placed definite re tI re for the health of ot th U the child upon the schools and the dl d dl vision of health education of ot the dc de- de of ot of public Instruction In n report Just j st Issued has nn an n In Statement bearing on this work The rhe report points out that tho field of child welfare work naturally fall mi Into three subdivisions protection 1 c of maternity and Infancy child beau healt and child labor Child health embraces em err braces the tho health education of children chI chil- dren in tho iho schools and the healt I management of ot children of preschool age The aim of the work is Js al health and In this the tho first firs litt p Is tho the establishment of healt heAlth education in the schools school EX EXAMINATION PROVIDED The immediate objects of ot the Utah Uta program Introduced in 1920 as a univ universal requirement nt of school dis b by tho the state board of or education tion nr arc I 1 Provision for tor the physical examination ex and md medical l Inspection oalI o onil of nil alI school children at least once i a II year car ear for foi 2 A system of follow up the tho purpose of ot correcting the defect defects I discovered by the medical Inspection school buildIngs build 3 3 The Inspection of Iii Ings S and grounds and the maintenance of f. f satisfactory sanitary V and hygienic I conditions 4 The protection of the school population from contagious dise diseases e edaily by daily dally Inspection and exclusion o ol of Incipient cases f- f 6 B. B Careful instruction In personal household and public hygiene training training- a aa as asa asa c. c Systematic physical l a means of ot promoting normal physical grow growth Lb RESULTS RESUL TS SPLENDID going torwald for for- t 4 ThIs work has been for the last Ins ward waid wald says the report two school years ears and the results are ai are eo splendid that tho most len ardent I supporters of ot the movement are more mor than pleased The report continues Health supervisors arc are employed Jn JP twenty five out of ot our forty districts dis trl tg and ard the tho districts not employing em- em em employing such supervisors are sparsely settled and have small school population lation the matter of health super supervision I vision is stated b by preference as follows fol tol- fol- fol lows rows Of the school children of t the state have had health through the employment of pf special health supervisors In the thc districts where the balance of the thc children live their health supervision has been assumed as ns one of the immediate im immediate mediate responsibilities of ot the superIntendents super super- superintendents themselves es A number ot 01 the thc superintendents have without special assistants done very satisfactory tory work ns fiS health supervisors There are teachers in the districts districts dis dis- reporting and of or this number have havo complied with the requirements requirements require require- ments of the board of ot education eduCation tion by reading tho the prescribed health e education books Th There ro aro are only four eighty additional onal teachers and it itIs itis ItIs Is safe to lo assume that at least halt half of ot these have read tho required texts I If such assumption is valid the totals given above would bo slightly In In- In creased TEACHERS AID This item in the report can be bo betaken taken as aa a fair fall index of the tho attitude of ot teachers and supervisory officers toward the state department and the tho instruction which it puts out One of ot the most Important Important- phases of of ur health education work TV oik is that which takes account of tho the nutrition of ot the children A poorly nourished child cannot long continue In school to advantage a and does poor work worl while ho lie is there as compared with his hiB performance during periods of ol normal nonn l growth Malnutrition Is re responsible reo re for much retardation and the the cost of ot retardation is no small Item Hem taking tho the state as a a. a whole Our effort has been directed first toward the discovery of ot undernourishment and second toward tho correction cor on of ot the condition The Tho best simple index Is weight for age and lintl height We Ve have followed fol lowed lowell Dr Thomas homas D D. Wood In taking 10 per jer cent underweight as that I which In most cases cases shows tion lion Our report shows that children have ha been weighed and ami measured meas meas- tired at least three times during the year ear Of these 3 were found tobe to tobe tobe be und underweight at atT f first ln t weighing and only onh 2433 were underweight at M th the thelast I last weighing There were I children at ot the first weighing who I were 10 per cent or more underweight and only of ot whom were cre that far farbelow farbelow below normal at tho the last weighing BROUGHT TO AVERAGE In lOIn other wor words Is more than one- one third of all children found underweIght underweight underweight under under- weight at the beginning of last year car were bi ought brought up to nv average before the end of the year ear and more than third one of the children who were at it least 10 per cent underweight attIm at atthe the tIm beginning of ot the year car were taken out of that class before lefoke the end of ot this year ear as indicated by their weights kt lit their last weighing It seems to those Interested that t this 18 reflects great credit upon the school workers when we wo remember that medical Inspection only a a. few years ears ago meant simply the examination examination examina examina- tion of en and ard tabulation and totaling of results found lea leaving Ing tono to tono tono no on one In particular the work of cor cor- Our SOur school population for last year was but the number actually In within the tho ages of ot 6 toIS to toIS 1 IS S was WIlS ll This latter figure isto Is Isto Isto to b be taken as a 11 basis basis' of comparison for tor work In health education Out of this of children In at attendance at- at were given gl Iven a physical physical cal and examination an and I were weighed and m measured at t len least t on once This Is slightly in excess of ot 84 U per pe percent cent of ot tho the attendance in all aU the thc schools of tho the state TABLE COMPILED The r results uHs of ot the the examination and nd I the number of ot remediable r defects defeet corrected arc indicated In the tono followIng following follow follow- 1 In Ing tabulation Number found with seriously de dc defective d 1 e cU te teth tb number corrected cor cor- I Number found o with seriously de defective defective e- e vision number cor cor- retted td 1653 Number Numb r found with seriously ly d do de defective hearing 2394 2304 number cor corrected corrected cori 1 d. d V Number found with seriously diseased dis eased cased number cor- cor i I 1 It is to bf bp regretted that a It larger proportion of or defects was not cor car corrected reeled but bul It It should be remembered that this Is 15 only the second year ear since this work was It Is probable II that no additional l pressure on this point more will be done don next year At any nm rate we have a n. rather definite Indication of what to stress in the tho fu future t sire While the above c considerations are arr Important the training of ot elementary chool children In the thc art of ot health Is by far the most Important phase of the whole work Our report shows howK that everywhere C there has been a R marked improvement In In this respect ha has boon been n placed upon habit habU I formation and while white the tho advantage nd I Ihns has hns been taken of the fact that great reat Interest Interest- can Con be created rented and maintained main maln- tamed by hv furnishing a right sort Crt Of Informational lIonal background habit formation formation for for- mation has hns been the measurable product aimed almEd at It Is no doubt quite mite impossible to estimate the value of ot this effort but bul when from every part of ot the state there thero come comp reports that hat the children ren are actually living up p to a n new standard In Jn their daily dilly habits we e know that the tho value Is high igl not only to the children themselves them them- selves elves s but bul to lo th the state in the form torm rf Cot 1 a citizenry of increased physical fitness fUness PRESCHOOL WORK The UThe second great step toward the realization of our aim of universal I hild health Is iq the establishment e of th the movement to s marc marc-i the welfare of the pre pre- school chool child This I is a tremendous which will take years yeans carR to york work out successfully Our immedi- immedi UP ito attack upon this problem Is ta taking tn- tn king kin the form of a movement that looks first to expert examination or If all children In the state at INstone least st one ne year prior to their entrance into chool school and second to the correction n jf of all aU remediable d defects before the york work of at school actually begins Our program cont contemplates a dis- dis met service b by teacher parent asso- asso lations women's clubs farm tarm bureaus and ind other voluntary and church or organizations or or- Interested In child welt wel wet t fare are e The UThe plan of ot work Is simple The first step consists consists- of or securing at the time ime of taking the re regular annual school chool census censul the names nam's and addresses ad ad- dresses of all aU children In a n district I Iwho who vho ho at that time October 21 15 have lave reached the tho age of 5 years and andre ire arc not yet et entered In school This will viii be done by b the school tics lea MOTHERS MOTHERS IN CLASS The uThe next step Is that thit In which the teacher parent assoc association tion or other local cal organization establishes a a. class tor or Dr the mothers of these 5 year who vho ho are arc to be made fit to enter scho chool l From this point on the procedure pro- pro Is outlined In detail In a buletin bulletin bul bul- letin etin issued b by the department entitled cn- cn titled tIed The rh Physical Welfare of ot f Preschool Pre- Pre school chool Children which can be lie had by superintendents of education principals pals iala als of schools and presidents of loal lo- lo bai cal al ai organizations Interested In child welfare without cost Where addi- addi tonal lonal copies are wanted a small fee of if f a few cents is charged This bulletin has a chapter de de- to the question Is your our child fIt It Lt to enter school l' l in which h are arc pointed out the tho significant facts of ot health growth and remediable tie dc- and the tho results which come to toc the he c Individual because of the tre- tre change In his Ufa Ufe when he heu heI 58 u I taken away from the free freo out of ot door activity to which he he hehns has hns been I tomed and placed under the more moreT morer or T r less necessary repression of the chool hool Another chapter deals with the home homo examination which every er mother bother should be trained to give ghe to her er child The evidences of mal- mal malnutrition nutrition and other r remediable de deeds defects de- de eds are explained In simple non- non language that will enable any ny fly mother to to qualify herself at least o the extent of determining whether or ir r not she hc needs expert help In the mana of ot her childs child's health I HYGIENE DISCUSSED I Other subjects discussed In a simle sim- sim I plo lo le way wa arc are home borne hygiene local or or- for tor child welfare work cO discuses licenses sources of ot the home medicine chest ind nd there is appended appen Ie a reliable table I ot if I heights and weights of ot boys and andI irIs by months from ft-em birth to the end I of if f the tho sixth year If It we the citizens of ot this state the bulletin shall be beas as as asI I sUccessful in forwarding this work vork I for or r the preschool children as os we have hae haven n I the ho he work vork of or health education in the schools wo we shall have occasion to ourselves as 5 having ha ma nade e a real contribution to the fit fit- nes ess and efficiency of the tho next gen- gen ration of ot Utah citizens j I |
