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Show CIW CHILD HIS NO HEALTH HIDICfiP Neither the rural child nor the city child has any advantage over the other oth-er in the matter of health, according to the February Child Labor Bulletin published by tho National Child Labor La-bor committee. In an article on "The Draft as a Test of the Nation's Physical Physi-cal Stamina," by Edward N. Clopper, an analysis of the per cent of men rejected re-jected for physical reasons in the draft shows that exactly the same per cent (26.6) were rejected ,frorii rural and from urban districts. Recent studies of rural school children have .tended to prove that the country child is not as healthy and robust as tho city child, due largely to tho fact that more measures meas-ures havo been taken by the cities for tho preservation of children's health. The draft figures show that the country boy is still holding his own but that he has no margin and that unless un-less the rural districts follow tho example ex-ample of tho cities in taking- care of their children, the cities will soon outdistance out-distance them. Another article dealing with the health of children, "Physical Welfare of Employed Children," by Florence I. Taylor, points out the necessity for medical supervision of children at work. Most states have medical inspection in-spection systems in their schools and a number of states require children to pass a physical examination before they can secure a permit to work according ac-cording to the article, but. after they have once entered industry there is no state that requires them to bo periodically period-ically examined to seo whether they are working at tasks harmful to their health. The article cites many cases where the health of children had suffered suf-fered because of their employment and recommends as a best means of handling the situation a special force of medical inspectors attached to the labor department in each state which would work under tho supervision of an agent of the state board of health. oo |