RT Journal
A1 Baker LK
T1 SChool hygiene
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1909
FD May 15
VO LII
IS 20
SP 1596
OP 1597
DO 10.1001/jama.1909.02540460044014
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1909.02540460044014
AB To the Editor: 
    —Dr. Gulick's article in The Journal, Jan. 10, 1909, recalls to my mind many of my experiences in Cleveland during the nine years, 1895 to 1904, when, under one title or another, I served the superintendent of instruction in the purely advisory position of supervisor of school hygiene. Examination of the school records would show some betterment in sanitary conditions in the Cleveland schools. The best results were attained after the appointment by the board, out of its membership, of a committee on school hygiene. Later, through the intervention of powerful enemies this movement received a setback, and for five years Cleveland has had no department of school hygiene.Thirty-three states have legislated on different aspects of school hygiene and all these enactments together form an array of sanitary legislation. Six years ago I secured the introduction into the Ohio State Legislature of a bill regulating the