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Show MANY SCHOOL CHILDREN DELOW PAR PHYSICALLY Miss lllnnche I'.wpcr of the I'lah Aricultural collge, gavo n talk on "Health Clinics,'' at tho civic center nt Salt Luke City last Saturday, in which she said that nearly 20 per cent of tho twenty million school children of America aro below par physically, and bconuso of this aro retarded in their school lifo from one to two jpflrs, necessitating tho oxenso to tho state of hiring teachers to ret each them for this period. Theso children are defective because of the lack of proper food and in soma instance on account of diseases, and if these fault nro corrected nlKinl 00 per cent can bo brought up to standard, physically. physi-cally. As conditions nro now, 20 to 40 per cent of the puiiil graduated from the elementary schools nro pbjsically unfit. "Ten of the school districts of Salt Ijnkc City," said Miss Cooper, "now havo trained representatives who nro engaged in showing parents how to rniso tho health standard of tho lire-school lire-school child The aim or tho child welfare department of tho civ ie renter and of tho Homo and .School league, is to put n trained worker in every school dis)rirt in tho city. At present, .pjght intmjMyoftjiaeJiiJ watfara Wlhltll?flRlf'eTMB1ceiUrl wlfc lug tliu nourse in nutritional elintg work being conducted there, and there is nn urgent call for moro .volunteers to enrrj ou this imKirtanl work. |