HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Herald, 1922-11-02, Page 3Giving Our Cluldrq a Good Start
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• Medical Inspection in Schools is a Public Health Measure.
Wbrthy of the Support of Every Progressive Citizen,
Fiance Was the Pioneer , and Began it Nearly
Ninety Years Ago.
Medical Inspection of schools le the The examination of children is
tealth, eupervision of school accommo-
dation and echo1 children, for the pur-
poee of maintaining a high etaedard of
vitality, and,in ordea that physical or
meatal defects may benoted early in
life and the proper treatment applied
to remedy them.
The medical inspection of schools is
not a new idea. The pioneer in this
department of public health work was
laralice, which in 1833 paeeed a law
which required the school authorities
to Provide for the sanitary condition
of scheol premises and for the expert
supervision of the health of children.
For forty years France was' alone in
this work and, it was not until 1867
that Germany took the :natter up,
Great Britain did not commence
medical inspection of saools until
1891. It was. tenth in order of time
among the countries which, adopted it.
• At that time the work was undertaken
only in London and did not spread to
the other great cities until later. The
first medical inspection of schools in
Canada wasundertaken in Montreal
in the year 1906.
There are two mides to the 'medical
Inspection of schoole. They are:—
(1) Examination of buildings.
(2) Examination .o;f pupils.
In the examination of buildiugs the
doctor or the nurse 'makes a thorough
scrutiny of the following:
Drainage.
Lavatory facilities.
Veatilation.
Heating.
Lighting. Suitability of and placing
of the seats.
Arrangement of the cloak -rooms,
sully made by the Dootor and tae
public health nurse, and if possI131e,
with, one of the parents and the teach-
er in attendanee. Clothing is not re-
moved without the. pa,renta' preeeoce
or consent. Examinations are made
for deteotive vision, defective hearing
or breathing, defective tonsils, teeth,
and in order to see that the child Is
properly llouriahecl.
R j unnecessary in thia, shert ar-
ticle to teli the various aspects, of
these defecte, but as au ilLustration,,
defective sight may be mentioned.
Many ,children are short-sighted or
loageefgb.ted and their daily endeavors
to read print of books or writing upon
bletekboarcle is the cause of great
physical diseomfort. •
A careful examination by trained et-
perts would reveal such defects. Suite
able steps could theu betaken to cor-
rect them: This would improve the
child's progress, increase its happiness
and assure greater efficiency in ma-
ture life.
Other defects are sometimes found
in children, namely: Heart disease, af-
factious of the lungs, mai-formations
ot the bands, feet or limbsnervous
affections, and defective mentality. To
let a helpless, Child, grow up without
discovering and attempting to remedy
such defects, is imposing upon it a seri-
ous handicap in the life struggle and
laying upon it the burden of many un-
happy years that might be avoidedby
proper attention and care.
Health inspectors of echoelssaie not
generally made among pupil% over the
age a.16. In large cities, the inspec-
tions, are undertaken by nurses and
All
doctors togetheas both of whom are
,othee matter likely to have a d
bearing upon the health of the child- thoroughly trained in this branch of
work.
In country places, where the system
of medical inspectioa of schools is
adopted, it is usual for a doctor to
spend only part of his time in this
work. If a doctor is not employed the
'examination is made 'by a properly
trained and qualified nurse, who calls
the attention of the parents or the
family physician to observed detects
that should receive attenteon.
Frona the many other argumentsin
favor of periodic medical inspection of
sehoole We select the following:
,(1) 'It teaches and encourages
health 'habits, in the child. (2) The
The purposes of the examinatlori close contaAlt. of ehildren; in school
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arestwto Firstly, for the pupil's own 'makes, the spread of contagious dis-
• benefit, in 'order to note Physaeal des eaaes coMparatively easy and, regular
• tecto ot 'bearing, Mellen, mentality, Medical inspection ,enables the 'school
vitality or other matters affecting the a, PaoritlAs-.1•&.4-"*,'Prt7 fli?-te early and
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Secondly, in order to .see that the, inspection of-sal-3MS helps to. impress
• child is. net the carrier of intectIons upon_ the community the fact that it
or eontagious diseases. .which would is part of: its ditty to provide whole -
be Of. danger both to hituself and the some sciaool environment for all its
• other children, .of'the scladol. children.,
ren.
• During the inspection, a watchful
• eye is, kept for any condition's that
• may be favorable to the development
or spread of contagious disease. The
seats are uoted to make sure that they
are suited to the size Of the children.
• The lighting and the placing of black-
boards is examined to see that they
• are so placed that there is no fast'
from reflected light and that they are
' close enough to the childreu using
them that there may be no eye strain.
The physical examination of the
pupils is necessarily a most important
side to medical inspection of sehools.
The Lady Was Right.
The lady, who was thinking of buy- ought to know about?"
the agent
l•g bilhad show her the ca,rburetor, 'the differs
n. plied the agent.
'Well, then, ware is the deprecia- BY HUMAN-
ean automoeh.aal 'We-
hy, yes, madam I think so" l'
tial, the trauenrisslon and everything tion? I am told that is one of the
the car. Then' she Laid, "Now, are you
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•7 SUIT-'".,O.LE' WORK.
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hoPP, I:BA-he:5a/ ,lnoee task has all the charm he'd
dare to ask! He eii..-
WORK.
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chasing rats or pasting"
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hair 'on woodea cats, ail: pateeters, to and fro, and when at
,,.: and, y's, "So help me, aolin, the
• eve the whistles. blew, hsa
a° ow ' f54d that one Must quit his
happy day's alreadygou a
chores to spend the ngh se1ese snores! I grudge ,each, hour
that bids rim reat, ,an f:tzl the 't,asks. I leze the best!" ' 011,
a* gad, enehanted jay who time
Work is better far than
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enjothe craft he,pli ', 17,1e•WG his job with loving eyes.
ys a
But of a thousandOni a. ea. thearork ho does as fun
r& pr the rnostof na
athat life's' a fizzle harsh and
a
oold, ince wknoi
eslioe,nalls, or grind out ponies
and clippY tales, .eu
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ninkie in' a store, or peddle
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le the -World 1% down,
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- ' mIIDSideilk from
• since phttes - towi .in gay and- shining
limousines, nrn put 'beaus. How many '
..,....-....e.s axte..v.rt.iDiliti;.i. work Witla Pride, •
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consider idlen
EMOTIONS s0
mare you've shown me all the things I it
THOUGHTS.
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Your Hands Always K
More About Some Things
Than You Do.
Elands, like faces, have ,their'eipreo-
alone, which may be so varied as, to
• display a great variety o The hands express mental agony by
_ea dial
a p able to recognize one anot •ef by through the other, with a convulsive
. If people had no faces, araehould be olutching ,one of them and passing it
aOaa'anar a physiognomy a the, hands. Ily obser- twist as the ends of the fingers are
'"v44 .:41'40 vation of a person's hands it Is pow-, reached. We oall.this "wringing" the
41ciAla sible to form a notion et his character hands; and to explain it is not so easy.
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‘ and individual peouliaritieso to spine . A hand hanging limp and motion -
0‘r. extent, that ia. to say, if the subject be '•?lese suggests repose of mind and body.
se,„karsea
s.,•':.o.V a. . ..- o,, P studied. This has nothing to do with . Anxiety is denoted by a strained and
\, (NYct.50-S•C'l paliristry, which is pure hunibug, the 'nervous' backward flexing of the fin-
ki "lines" of the hand being mere foldgers.
.... between the muscles. But if it be ad- These points are merely elementary.
nettled that hands have physiegoPorY, "'Way offer no more than a suggestion
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of their own, why stint:Id it not be India of the inallY ways in vitro the hands
the may be used by a clever ',Mame:Piet
cative of cbaracter, like that of
•••tor ea.preesing ideas and emotions.
face? • ,
It is aurmised that the emotional 'ex, •'• Your hands are trained automata,
donees oat, all right: It seems to •de
Vulike
mecibianical automata„,, tbey
69041 to Posacert, a, -sort of intelligenee
of their own. • Not that they actUPAIY
do any thinking, of course, whioh Is
the arailies, businese; Out they, learn
things and, remember them in a won-
derful way,
Many years of praotiee lave taught
them hew to dresa you, to feed you,
aud to perform great variety of other
tasks. But, their ,p.irey automatic
function -may be illustrated by . ;art
amusing sort of happening that 'has
oeourred doubtleats te every one of us.
You have gone to your bedroom to
change your shoes or some garment.
Your mind is busy with, other matters,
and suddenly yn(i alsoover,• to your
great surprise, that you are half un-
dressed. Your hands, without your
knowing. it, have been putting you to
bed,
Perhapa you are accustomed to
write oxi the typewriter. But, even
though you may be a sallied, operator,
it will puzzle YOU to be eked when
there is no machine at hand, -where
certain letters—say, S and' N—are 10-,
cated on the keyboard. Yet your fin-
gers find them instantly and without
hesitation. They know the keyboard.
• Marvel o1 Plano Playing.
Much more remarkable is the illus-
tration afforded by the piano. A
skilled performer will play with per -
foot accuracy a loog and complicated
piece of music while keeping up a live- gers, if they were able to talk, could
ly conversation with another person tell you. They know.
standing by. The player is giving no A card player while dealing is, think -
conscious attention to the movemeatts ing of something else. The process is
of her fingers; they act automatically purely automatic. But if two of the
in response to a subconscious direc- cards happen to stick together, the
tion, themselves, as it would appear,
attending to the purely mechanical
part of the business,.
Your hands attend to the whole
business of dressing you every day.
While you put on your clothes you are
thinking of something else. But your
bands do not hesitate or bungle the
job; they just go ahead ands do it as
it ought to be done, with a minimum
number of movements, because they
• cods are extended forward, the fin-
- ers•-drawn strongly back, as if to re-
.
aseathe Object of dread.
, Greed is expressed by a carved and
ober-like extension of the fingers. The
minor in a play, somewhat convention-
•, alizea"as a type, invariably emphasizes
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this attitude 61 the fingers to denote
1 avarice and grasping cupidity.
General HarIngton
He has received the ofecial thanks
and commendation of Britain for bis
services in the Near _Oast situation.
ing? Not at all. 1 -ler mind is busy
with something else; perhaps she Is
talking to a neighbor. She may even
be reading a book But if she drops a
stitch, her hand tells her. She looks,
sees the mistake and corrects it.
Ask any woman how iu sewing on a
button she is always able to hit the
holes with her needle. She never fails,
but she cannot tell you why. Her lin-
lingers give instant notice.
It is a matter of everyday observa-
tion that some people's hands are
much cleverer than other people's.
Thus. we speak of one person as pos-
sessing exceptional manual dexterity,
another person is "slumay"
Iii
handling things.
The hands of an ape have no ex-
pression. But those of a human being
can talk with a language of their own
have had long experience. When they as plainly to be understood as vocal
are finished, you take a look at your- speech; and it is a fact worth noticing
self in the glass and find that every- that clever people use their hands
thing is all right, with perhaps one or cleverly in gesture, whereas, it is quite
two final corrective touches. otherwise with dull and stupid folks.
Faeility• in expression with the hands
- They put on your ehirt, button your
collar and comb your hair while your can be cultivated, like facility in the
use of 'spoken words. Players. in the
mind is on other things. .A. woman
does not have to think about what she moving pictures are obliged to cult -
is doing while she arranges her hair,vats it, for upon
this silent language
even though her coiffure be somewhat they must largely depend for tire et-
fectiveness ief their pantomimic art.
elaborate. He hands, practiced in the
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art, know how. When it is done she .
takes a critical look at the back of her The Forest and Human Life.
No human being has ever lived with.
head with the help of a hand -mirror,
out wood. So far as we can see, no
bestows a few judicious pats here and
human. being ever will. Even. the Es.
there and approves. the result.
kimo in the frozen North, where no
At 'the table, while eating, your mind
treas grow, must have wood, It la an
is usually occupied with conversation,
absolute necessity. Human life began
and you ftre hardly oonscions ot the
in the forest, and if the forest disaja
.p.:_`astessela by which your feod is con -
not pick up a fork and try to use it as
a kaite, o•r commit any other such
absurdity.
Language of Their Own.
Observe a woman while she knits,
Is she thinking about what she Is do -
life vain am"
• tend to all that business, and they do r Practice( Proof. •
"Doctor, Ian sure I'm getting all the
exercise I need."
"There's no indication of ft."
"No wonder. You have only looked
at my tongue. But you just ought to
see the soles of my oho -es."
• In sapplication thp hands ars ex-
tended with palms upward to show
Haat they hold no 'weapons. The pas-
ture therefore is expressive of help-
less, appeal. Another mode of convey-
ing the same idea is to hold out the
halide with the palms clasped together
—the conventional attitude of prayer.
"Wringing" the Hands.
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pressiods of the bands are d'erived, ,aaaallest remarkable it is that they
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THE GERMAN MYSTERY the fist is au instrument of defels.e, t eur fingers know how to tie your
That you should daily shrink in size, Any strong excitement AVM 0,`-qt§0 .
danger or alarm.
. turns, and twists, they ard likely to go
yoll fix your conscious mind upon the
"It puzzles, me," the Fat Fritz cries, held ready in case of necktie much better than you ao. If
And more balloon -like every day,' ' If, however, the emotion be one 0 wrong, But think of something else
the fists to clench. a. .
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' While I get fatter, strange to say, .
—Reynold's Newspaper (London). horror or fright, the palms of both while you perform the proccea and it
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