Show V III Kd POINTS ON KEEPING WELL DR FREDERICK R GREEN editor of HEALTH ay 0 ell ea ex le t cc 1928 1926 tw union HEALTH OF THE PRESCHOOL CHILD M MUCH 11 has been writ mitten tell anil and I 1 diluted wl ii acl lit in recent years onis about tile infant atit its anre and protect loll front f disease quite as much ht hoi 14 been written ritten rt about school ch Udien 1 both tile ho 1 I agers mul and tile safeguards of tho musing infant find of tile child old enough to go to school nio essentially rent in between these two classes Is WA W ft A lint lins come to bo be known us its tile child implying that the c chilli Is too old to he be regarded as ft a baby but not ild id engligh to go 90 to tic school ihla class Is also called by dr wililam palmer lucas of san francisco i the ho runabout child or tile child chilt Is old enough to run around tho housa and not yet old enough to be subject ce to school restrictions this period Is variable in the caso of different children but generally gen orally la is taken us as extending from tile tho second to tho the sixth year car it Is tho the divid dividing t ng period between the time when ile child Is limited entirely ent liely to tho the homo and homo influences and the time when ns as a school child its health and well oll being passes largely to tho the school authorities it Is in n way ft a neglected ngo ago na as the mother burdened with household davics auclea and tho the care perhaps of still younger children has often little or no time to devoto devota to it and it la Is still too young to be given elvon any attention by the teacher yet it Is probably the most imbor tant period in the childs life in the years from two to str infant defects tire most apt to develop errors in nutrition nio common dental defects are also numerous as the first teeth are often neglected and the permanent teth teeth are just just appearing eye bye weaknesses weakness eq tire are beginning to show os as the child Is beginning io to use its eyel byc any of f these defects if found and correlles correl corrected led during this period not only improve the childs chance of starting into school without gny physical handicap but also greatly erectly increases In creasea its chances of doing good work in school in fact it has haa been found that 25 per cent of children who tall fail of promotion in the first school year are aio almost entirely those children who come into school with some defect which could and should have been remedied not only la in the preschool child apt to have eyo eye and teeth defects but it may also have adenoids aden and diseased tonsils ton sils defects of posture and heart troubles due to contagious diseases it has acquired in the first six years its itis mental condition should also be carefully tested before tile the child Is sent to school so bo that allaround all around careful examination of every child before the school age la isi of the great wt mit practical importance |