RT Journal
T1 MEdical inspection of schools.
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1909
FD November 6
VO LIII
IS 19
SP 1586
OP 1586
DO 10.1001/jama.1909.02550190062028
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1909.02550190062028
AB The author of this work is a reformer who recognizes that an important crisis before his country and who sees in medical inspection of schools one of the steps necessary to secure the future of education and of national development. He accuses Great Britain of physical and intellectual degeneration and indifference to the vital problems of education. His remedy for the evils which he discerns lies in education—an education guided and controlled by the medical man. Medical inspection of schools is more than mere medical advice to school boards, more than inspection of school premises with reference to ventilation and the like, more than the exclusion of infectious diseases. It means that every teacher dealing with the difficult problems of school life may have the advantage of medical guidance; and that every child, normal or abnormal, may have medical inspection to determine his fitness for the work of education. The