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Show PANAMA SCHOOLS HAVE MEDICAL INSPECTION Folks at home take an Interest in the school conditions in the canal zone and will be pleased to learn from official offi-cial sources the Inside facts about the reported reorganization .of the 'nigh schools, the grading of the pupils and the physical condition of the children generally in all of the canal zone schools. A medical Inspection of the schools has been provided for, and the local district physician in each village will hereafter Inspect the pupils, and advise ad-vise the teachers as to what physical exercises should be given in order to correct conditions that can be remedied reme-died In that way. It has been noticed that the children In the canal zone have -nore eye troubles trou-bles than In similar schools in the btates. and that the percentage of curvature cur-vature of the spine Is greater. Tho tendency fr pupil to become stoop shouldered Is al.o very marked. These observations have determined the school authorities to take measurements, measure-ments, of which a permanent record will be kept, with a view to working our phsical culture exercises calculated calculat-ed to correct these particular tendencies. tenden-cies. In thin work the efforts will be made at Cristobal, where one of the teacher is a graduate of a normal school of gymnastics, and last year had charge of the physical culture work for too first and second grade of the school In Indianapolis. Ind. The physical director di-rector of the Y. M. C. A. in Cristobal h?s aleo offered to. help In devising exercises that will be suitable for children in this climate. There are two high schools In the canal rone, one at Culebra and one at Cristobal, and both of them were reorganized re-organized In November, when two new teacher arrived on the isthmus. One of these teachers, who comes from tho high school at Sandusky, Ohio, has been given charge of the greater part of the high school work at Culebra. while a teacher from laB Cascade school has been transferred to Cristobal Cristo-bal as an assistant In both gTade and high school work at that place. . The present arrangement at tho high school provides for nn increase in the length of the recitation periods, and for an addition of subject which could not be given before. With an additional teacher at Calebra It has been possible to hold the high school In the afternoon a well as in the morning, thus giving the pupils the adantage of an additional study period In school under the direction of the teacher. |