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Show ; The other day for the first time all the children in the schools of Berlin were examined as to their ,M health; there were fifteen thousand of them and fl thirty-six examiners. Berlin was paralyzed over f M the results. Two per cent of the children were In- j , sufficiently developed either in body or mind, and j I H had to bo excluded for a half a year or longer; j fl sixteen per cent were not strong enough to attend : I school, owing to the debilitating effects of scarlet ;fl fever and other diseases; sixteen per cent were JH suffering from scrofula and five per cent had tu- i berculosls. The medical examinations of school ; ohildrea should be a regular custom in American ; schools in this country. All classes of people send ;l their children to the public schools; that is right, j ifl that is a part of our system; it enables the chll- jfl dren of the rich and the poor to start on a dead I n-HBlBBB. W L il I level, but a great many children are sent to school that because of their physical Ills ought to be excluded. ex-cluded. Many parents are Innocent, they do not know that anything Is the matter with their children, chil-dren, and even when they know something is wrong, they do not realize that the trouble is of such a nature aa ought to isolate their ohildren from other children. In such cases the State ought to interpose in behalf alike of the well and the ill. |