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Show CHILDREN CI BE WEIGHED AT SCHOOL The Central Junior high school will be used as a welfare work center where children may be taken to be weighed and measured, if they have failed to visit any of the schools where this testing has been done Superintendent Su-perintendent Johnson in a statement says : "The committee in charge of th weighing and measuring ol babies for the government has had splendid success suc-cess with the work, which will be completed com-pleted this week. Mrs. J M Canse and Mrs. J. R. "Cooper have devoted their whole time to the work requested request-ed by the government. Their splendid splen-did success in making the work to thorough (as about sixteen hundred babies have been weighed and measured), meas-ured), comes from 'hr co-operation of the Parents-Teachers associations and the other dub women of the city. Mrs. C. -B. Isenberg. nurse for the Children's Aid society, and Miss Florence Flor-ence West, one of the nurses from the Dee hospital, havp devoted their lull time during the last two weeks lo the weighing and measuring. In addition to this work. Mrs. Canse and : I Mrs. Cooper havo distributed circulars of instruction in rc-pard to the h.altii and proper carr- of babies Today this I work its beinp carried on at the Five I Polnth srhool, and tomorrow at the i Grant school, which covers the whole ity . "On account of the fact that some children have been unabh- to report at tho buildings at the time designated designat-ed for their districts, the committee! has selected as a central place for the; whole city, the Central Junior high I shcool, where they will meet all moth- i ers with children who could not come to the district in which they live. The work at the Central Junior hich school will begin at 8:30 o'clock Saturday Sat-urday morning." |