Ogden Evening Standard | 1912-01-18 | Page 8 | Caring for Health of the Children

uu CARING FOR HEALTH OF THE CHILDREN Washington, Jan. IS. Progress In the movement for protecting the health of school children in this country coun-try Is shown by faetspresented in a leport presented W tho federad board of education by "William II. Hood of the division of school administration. Whereas in 1905 there wore only 5j cities In tho United States where there was medical -examination of tho school children, this number had increased in-creased in 1011, Mr Hood points ou, to "433 Tho examination of school children's teeth1, (iVdivldual drinking cups and a number of other modern sanitary measures' were unknown six years ago, but In 1911 there were ,-115 ,-115 school doctors, 785 schools with sanitary fountainsT 264 with individual individ-ual drinking cups, 552 cities where vision and hearing tests wero con-c ducted by teachers and 258 where they were conducted by doctors and there were 592 schools where first aid was taught.