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SCHOOL—COMMUNITY
HEALTH EDUCATION SERVICE

(Reprint Vol. XIII, N0. 1, March, 1945 Educational Bulletin)

 

Published by

DEPARTME NT OF EDUCATION

JOHN FRED WILLIAMS
Superintendent of Public Instruction

 

 

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ISSUED MONTHLY

Entered as second-class matter Mérch 21, 1933, at the post office at
Frankfort, Kentucky, under the Act of August 24, 1912.

Vol. XIV SEPTEMBER, 1946 No. 7

 
  
  
 
 
  
   
  
   
  
     

 

 

 

 

 

 

 FOREWORD

Health is a subject of the first order in a prtm'ram of education
which trains people for citizenship in a. democracy. Every school
system in America recognizes the importance of health by placing it
in the curriculum to rank at least with the fundamental tool subjects
of reading, writing;- and arithmetic. Regardless of the apparent
emphasis upon the importance of health in the lives of people, there
are still too many people who are unable to perform their duties as
citizens because of" poor health.

In order that health education in the schools might be made more
effective in the lives of people it has been decided to increase em-
phasis upon health teaching and health practices in our schools and
communities. To that end a Division of Health Education has been
established in the State Department of Education and a full—time
Director has been appointed to that position. He, with the coopera-
tion of his colleagues in the Department of Education and leaders in
schools and colleges, has made an. excellent start on a program of
health education and community health services.

This bulletin, prepared under the leadership of Mr. llambleton
Tapp, gives in brief the purposes of the program aml describes the
progress made during the first half of this, the first year. I commend
it to you as a guide and stimulus in improving the health services
throughout the. state.

Jonx FRED \ViLLIAMs
NuperinI‘mzdenf of Public Instructzon

 

Many requests for copies of this Bulletin have continued to
reach us long after the supply was exhausted. \Ve are, therefore,
making reprints available.

November 27, 1946

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ORIGIN OF THE STATE PROGRAM OF HEALTH

In the late spring of 1944 a grant was made to the Superinten-
dent of Public Instruction by the Kellogg Foundation of Battle
Creek, Michigan. to establish a Division of Health Education in the
State Department of Education. The grant was made by the Kellogg
Foundation in order that a program of health services7 state—wide in
scope, might be provided in all the communities in the state under the
leadership of the state and local school systems.

Health has long been recognized as the first cardinal objective
in all programs of education in the elementary and secondary schools.
So important is it considered to be in the educational program that
health is a required subject at every grade level in the public ele—
mentary and secondary school of the state. It is considered a “must”
subject just as spelling, reading and writing. Health education is in—
cluded in every course of study prepared by the state and in almost
every pamphlet which the state has published relating to the total
program of the state.

Emphasis on the subject of health, however, has not been strong
enough since the results have been disappointing. \Vhen the figures
concerning rejections of prospective fighting men were released by
the selective service boards, people were shocked at the wholesale
rejection of young men because of physical unfitness. Somewhere we
have failed to do enough to develop health knowledge to the degree
that it resulted in health practice. Perhaps the matter of health in the
curriculum should have more emphasis than has been given to it in
schools and communities. “\Vhat steps should be taken? “Where could
we get the funds to do things in health education we have thought
we should do but were unable to do?” The budget set up for the
Operation of the State Department of Education could not bear a
heavier load.

Information came to the Superintendent of Public Instruction
that the Kellogg Foundaton had helped the State Department of
Education in Michigan develop a promising program of Community
Health Services in that state. The Foundation was contacted and an
Encouraging reply was received. Kentucky was asked to formulate
a Plan of extending health education services through the schools.
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tion, visited the Kellogg Foundation, conferred with the Director of
Community Health Service Projects, and studied the program of
Community Health Services under the direction of the Michigan
State Department of Education. He reported to the Superintendent
the result of his investigation.

The Superintendent appointed a State (‘onnnittec on Health
Education to advise. with him and his staff concerning the kind of
health services the State Department of Education should sponsor.
This committee met on May 10, 1944, to consider the question. The
committee was made up of persons in the field ol’ health and persons
in closely related fields. It included the following persons:

Dr. P. E. Blut'lrcrby, Commissioner of llealth, State Board of
Health, Louisville, Kentucky.

Dr. Static Erickson, Head Home, Economics Department, Col-
lege of Agriculture, 'l'lniversity of Kentucky, l'iexington, Kentucky.

Miss Elizabeth Film, Director of Child \Yell'are, State Depart
ment of \Velt‘are, Frankfort, Kentucky.

Mrs. Emma Hunt Krarz‘erisc, President, State Board of Nurse
Examiners, 604 South Third Street, Louisville, Kentucky.

Dr. A. M. Lyon, Director of Hospitals, Department of Welfare,
Frankfort, Kentucky.

ill/1733 Mary Lois ll'i/Zimusuu, State :l)ireclor, llome Economic
Education, Department of Education, Frankfort, Kentucky.

Dr. R. E. Joggers, Vice Chairman, Chict’, Bureau of Instruction,
Department of Education, Frankfort, Kentucky.

Hon. J 0/1/71. Fred “Williams, Chairman, Superintendent of Public
Instruction, Department of Education, Frankfort, Kentucky.

Dr. Maurice F. Scary, General Consultant, Director Bureau of
School Service, University of Kentucky, Lexington. Kentucky.

The Superintendent presented to this group an outline of the
plan he and his staff had worked out. After discussion and modifi-
cation the Advisory Committee on Health Education recommended
the following broad plan as a program of action.

A. Purpose of Community Health Service Program

1. Develop leadership in community health service among sec—
ondary school pupils.

Make the school a healthful place in which to learn.

Make the home a healthful place in which to live.

Make children healthier.

Give experiences in the maintenance of health.

Make community health services available to as many people
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the schools should be appointed by the Superintendent of
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Provision should be made for preparation of county helping
teachers and county coordinators and for persons who pre-
pare secondary pupils for leadership in community health
services.

Provision should be made to bring county helping teachers
and coordinators, and persons who prepare secondary pupils
for leadership in community health services, together for
selecting, classifying, and organizing materials of learning,
and planning for carrying out of programs in counties and
schools.

The state coordinator should work with county coordinators
and helping teachers, and with persons who direct in lead-
ership preparation in the secondary schools.

The state coordinator should work with all divisions in the
State Department of Education and all other departments
which can contribute to the purposes of this program.

The coordinator should have the status of supervisor in the
field of instruction.

There should be a state advisory committee representing
health, child welfare, home economics, hospitals, nursing,
and general education.

0. Suggested Program of Action at Local School Units

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Select 10 counties or 25 twelve grade schools in which the
program should be inaugurated in the entire 12 grades.

Work with local health departments, hospitals, nurses, child
welfare agencies, home economics departments, nutrition
committees, demonstration agents, farm agents, farm secur-
ity agents, and others in preparing local program of action.

Provide for secondary school pupils definite preparation for
leadership in community health service.

Organize programs at all school levels leading 'toward the
achievement of all the accepted purposes of this program.

Provide materials for learners at the elementary and sec-
ondary school levels.

Select a helping teacher or teachers to be the coordinators
of health instruction.

D. Financial Support of the Community Health Service Project

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Costs of implementing this program should be estimated.

Application should be made to the W. K. Kellogg Founda-
tion for funds with which to implement the program.

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Immediately after the meeting of the State Superintendent with
the State Advisory Committee on Health Education, application was
made to the Kellogg Foundation by the Superintendent of Public
Instruction. The Foundation made a grant sufficiently large to pro-
vide for the employment of a, State Coordinator and tor his traveling
expenses, secretarial. assistance for the coordination; a sum for work-
shop, a small sum for publication, and a sum to be used in helping a
limited number of counties in the employment of county health
coordinators.

The State Director of Health Education assumed his duties on
August 14, 1944, and began at once to take the, first, steps in the
formulation of a program of action.

The first major step taken in the program was to select 10
counties in which intensive programs of eonnuunity health serrices
were to be organized. This task was completed in September. The
second major step was to organize a workshop for the intensive job
training of county coordinators who were to lead in organizing the
Community Health Service Program in the counties selected.

The counties selected are widely representative of the counties
of the state and are fairly well distributed on a. geographic basis. The
counties selected with the county coordinators are:

Adair Mrs. Clyde Marshall
Breathitt Mrs. R. M. VanHorne
Elliott Miss Opal Brown
Knox Chester Hammons
Leslie Mrs. Lelia Begley
Letcher Robert Blair
Magoffin Miss Olga Prather
McCraeken Mrs. Marell Morris
Pike Mrs. Sallie Kimbler
Todd Mrs. B. L. Penick

GETTING THE PROGRAM UNDER WAY

The State Director of Health Education soon after assuming his
position prepared a general statement about the program and dis—
tributed it to all participants in the program of health education in
the county systems. This statement covered such phases of the pro—
gram as Purpose, First Steps, Obligations of Counties, the Commu-
nity—School Health Service \Vorkshop, the General Duties of the State
Supervisor of Health Education, the “fork of the County Coordina-
tor, a Course of Study in Health Education, and the like. It is repI‘O'
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The Purpose— To stimulate a county or community interest
in the importance of health to such an extent that the individual, the
home, the school, the community will strive to learn the best health
practices and put them into operation.

First Steps—The State Supervisor will select ten counties of
the state in which to project an intensive connnunity-school health
education experiment program, in accordance with the desires of both
the W. K. Kellogg Foundation (donor of the fund making possible
the work) and the State Community-School Health Education
Committee.

Obligations of the Counties Selected— To appoint a person to
act as county supervisor, or coordinator, of the county—wide health
education work. This appointment will be made by the county board
of education. The person appointed should be one possessing above
the average intelligence, energy. enthusiasm personality and, if
possible, should be a college graduate with successful teaching
experience. The counties selected will be obliged to pay all of the
salary of the local coordinator except $500 contributed by the Kellogg
Foundation, as well as traveling expenses. The salary, however, is
arranged by the county school superintendent. (The suggestion is
made that the superintendent of the independent districts of the
counties selected be requested by the county superintendent to aid in
paying the salary of the, coordinator.) it should be made as large as
possible.

The Community-School Health Education Workshop—-
A course of training for the county coordinators will be given at the
University of Kentucky, Lexington, probably September 11—16. This
school, directed by Dr. Leonard Meece, Bureau of School Service,
University of Kentucky, and a staff of elementary and secondary
school experts from the State Department of Education and from
Teachers Colleges, will be under the instruction of well-known
authorities: State Board of Health doctors and nurses; nutritionists,
dieticians and lunchroom experts from the University and the State
DEpartment of Education; welfare and mental hygiene specialists
from the State \Velfare Department; an authority from the Kentucky
Education Association upon buildings and grounds in their relation
to school sanitation; a lecturer sent by the Kentucky State Dental
Association; a physical education and playground specialist; county
health doctors and nurses, and others. This will be the most unique
and comprehensive school of its kind ever conducted in Kentucky.
Immediately following the close of this workshop the coordinators
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mediate organization ot’ the connnunity-school health program of
their counties. The State Supervisor will aid in the community
organization ot,’ each of the ten counties.

Work of the State Supervisor in the Counties—He will at.
tempt: to arouse local enthusiasm by advocating and explaining a
new community-sehool health education effort in the county. This
he will do in several ways:

1. Visiting and enlisting the cooperation and aid of the health

units. the doctors and nurses.

2. Visiting and enlisting the cooperation and support of the
hospitals and clinics.

3. Enlisting cooperation of the Red Cross, the county farm agent.
Frontier Nursing Association toward more practical lesson in com-
munity—school health education.

.4. Stimulating the interest and support ol‘, as well as leadership,
the clubs, societies and associations. such as

The Parent-’l‘eachers Chamber ot‘ Commerce
\Vomen’s Clubs loard of Trade
Kiwanis Club _ Ministerial Association
Rotary Club 4—H Club

Lions Club Boy Scouts

Exchange Club Girl Scouts

Camp Fire (‘rirls

5. Attempt to arouse the enthusiasm and support of the local
editor, so that. favorable publicity will issue through the county.

6. Become acquainted with the manager of the local motion
picture theatre. with the view of favorable advertising and use oi
facilities for showing health education pictures.

7. Discuss the School-Communit_v program with the teachers:
superintendents, principals and boards ot‘ education of both county
and independent school districts.

8. Visit schools. as t'a ' as time permits, to help organize worliy
to observe the plan in operation and to check results.

9. In an abbreviated form the State Supervisor will carry out
this procedure in as many of the counties of the state as possible,

exclusive of the ten selected for intensive work, as the State Commit-

tee has resolved to begin organizing a Scltool-Community Health
Education plan in all the counties possible, with particular emphfiSIS
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women— to the end that: the county, and thereby the nation, be made
stronger and happier.

Work of the County Coordinator— This person will work
with the State Director in kindling and developing a county-wide
enthusiasm in community—school health education. He or she will be
able to do the ground work in preparing the county for the program
prior to the arrival of the State Director. The county coordinator,
after having attended the workshop, will return to his or her county
to give the county ’s teachers the things learned in that conference.
He or she will aid these teachers in organizing and establishing
courses in health education. It will be his or her duty to visit all the
county schools, for purposes of helping and checking, make contact
with the count; agencies and officials——health officer, visiting nurse,
welfare worker, connnunity hospital, Red Cross agent, county farm
agent, dietician, service clubs, etc.——enlist their help for the schools—
such as establishing clinics, providing for lectures, consultations,
round-table discussions, demonstrations, movies, visitation, practice
and experimentation — conduct school and community surveys,
demonstration, summer camps, as well as visit, in so far as time per—
mits, families in the county. The county coordinator will encourage
every teacher to teach health in everything, even in arithmetic and
geography, in order to cause the child to maintain a constant con-
sciousness of the importance of health in successful and happy living.
He or she will. encourage the instructors of health education to teach
by the problem method, making the problems as practical and appli-
cable to the locality as possible, and to use the textbook mainly to
SUpply information which the problem has suggested, such as the
local well or water supply or fountain, or the size of the room, light—
ing, ventilation, etc., or a local epidemic measles, scarlet fever, itch,
etc. Health education can be made very popular. The county co-
ordinator can also help by conducting demonstration classes and by
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slides, movies, etc.

The county coordinator will make reports in writing from time
to time to the State Director. It will be well for him or her to make
a survey 0f the local field to determine the program to be made. The
plan then should be set up, outlining the problems, the methods of
attack and the objectives. All of this should be carefully set. forth in
writing. At the end of the year a general summary of the achieve-

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ments should be made in a written report. A log or running narra.
tivc of the work in the county, with newspaper clippings, pictures,
certain letters, would be invaluable, as well as interesting.

The Course of Study in Health Education— This will take
into consideration. four main factors, namely

1. the individual
2. the family
3. the school
4. the community

Hundreds of points are involved under these four headings. Just
consider for a moment, for instance, some of the many important
elements involved in the matter of personal hygiene—care of skin,
hair, nails, kind and condition of wearing apparel, condition of the
teeth, eyes, ears, nose and throat, respiratory habits, eating and
digestive habits, posture, exercise, recreational habits, mental atti-
tude; some evolving around the fat?till/7*0011Clit1011 0f the house
(floors, walls, ceilings, lighting, heating, ventlating, degree of clean-
liness), sickness, precaution against contagion, foods, cooking condi-
tions, mental attitudes and dispositions of the parents, moral influ-
ences, etc.; or the school with its many problems involving safety,
sanitation, nutrition and health; or the community with its problems
of safety (streets, transport, buildings, lighting, order), sanitation
(condition of streets, buildings, water supply, foods, sewage, etc),
health and the facilties for maintaining it (involving clinics, hospi-
tals, sanitoriums, and the care of diseases—tuberculosis, cancer, polio
and ordinary epidemical diseases). These are only a few of the inter-
esting problems which present themselves. The pupils will be face to
face with actual conditions, will study them, offer suggestions and
then study more.

In the end, the pupil not only should have a fair knowledge 0f
the important factors involved in health education, but should be
healthier and happier; will attempt to make the school, the home and
the entire community safer, cleaner, healthier and happier ; all of
which will exert its influence upon making a healthier, happier,
stronger state and nation.

THE HEALTH EDUCATION WORKSHOP

A workshop in Health Education was conducted on the Campus
of the University of Kentucky, September 11—16, 1944. Dean
William S. Taylor, Dr. Maurice F. Scay, Dr. L. E. Mcece, all of the
University of Kentucky, and State Superintendent John Fred

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Shop. Dr. L. E. Meece was asked to be the Director of the workshop.

The Workshop Schedule and Staff

Monday, September 11:

9A. M. to 11 A. M.

Milk and Food Sanitation—Mrs. Sarah Vance Dugan, Director, Divi—
sion of Foods, Drugs and Hotels
Motion pictures: “Eating Out” or “Slinging Hash”; “Modern Magic”

11 A. M. t02P. M.

Water and Sewage and General Sanitation, by Charles M. Davidson,
Director, Division of Sanitary Engineering, State Board of Health.
Film: “Water—Friend or Enemy”

The pictures are shown and explained by Roy McGee
“Winged Scourge”; “Vandals of the Night”; “Keep Em Ou ”;
—Mosquitoes, Rats, Flies.
2 P. M. to 3:30 P. M.
The Control of Communicable Disease—R. E. Teague, M. D., Director
Division of Tuberculosis

3:30 P. M. to 4 P. M.
Round-table discussion

Tuesday, September 12:

9 A. M. to 11 A. M.
The Local Health Department in Kentucky—Dr. Carl M. Gambill
and Dr. P. E. Blackerby, Chairman of the State Board of Health
11 A. M. to 12 P. M. and 1:30 P. M. to 2 P. M.
Individual Health Protection—Robert H. English, M. D., P. A. Sur-
geon U. S. Public Health Service.
2P.M.t03P.M.
Reports of County Health Doctors and Nurses

3P.M.t04P.M.

Round—table discussion
Staff meeting

Wednesday, September 13:

9A. M. to 10 A. M.

Nutrition—Dr. Static Erickson, Home Economics Department, Uni-
vers1ty of Kentucky

10 A. M. to 11 A. M.
Round-table discussion of Nutrition

11 A. M. to 12 P. M.
Reports of County Health Officers

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 1:30 to 2:30 P. M.

School Lunch Program—Miss Mary Lois Williamson, State Depart-
ment of Education

2:30 P. M. to 3 P. M.
Round-table discussion of School Lunch Rooms 7

3P.M.to4P.M.
Meeting between staff and county coordinators

Thursday, September 14:
9 A. M. to 11:30 P. M.
Physical Education and Playgrounds, leader, Miss Rosallia Kurz,
Physical Education Supervisor, Louisville City Schools, followed by

round—table discussion of playgrounds and physical education pro-
grams

1:30 P. M. to 2:30 P. M.

Social Service work done by the State Welfare Department, by Miss
Elizabeth Fike, Supervisor of Child Welfare

2:30 P. M. to 3 P. M.
Discussion of local social service work, led by county health nurses

 

3P.M.to4P.M. {
Meeting of the staff and coordinators i

Friday, September 15:
9 A. M. to 11 A. M.

Mental Hygiene Work in Kentucky, leader, Dr. A. M. Lyon, Director
Mental Hygiene, State Welfare Department
11 A. M. to 12 M.

Buildings and Grounds in Their Relation to Sanitation, discussed by 1
Hon. John W. Brooker, Public Relations Director, Kentucky Educa- ‘
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Round-table discussion of general physical and health problems re-
lating to the school and grounds

Staff and coordinators to formulate program of Health Education to
be used in the counties

Saturday, September 16: I
9 A. M. to 12 M.

Reports of the staff and the cordinators upon the programs arrang€d

The Visiting Workshop Staff
Miss Mary Rone, Todd County Nurse, Elkton

Dr. Charles J. Grubin, Director, Madison County Health Department
Richmond

. _‘ Miss Geneva Hinton, Nurse, Scott County Health Department
5: ‘ ‘ Georgetown

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Dr. Paul D. Moore, Health Officer, Lincoln, Garrard and Casey
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Roy McGee, Teacher Coordinator Schools for Food Handlers, State
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Captain Robert H. English, M. D., Assistant Director, County Health
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J. Rout, Sanitary Inspector, Lincoln, Casey, Garrard Counties

Miss Alice M. Payne, Public Health Nurse, Mercer County, Harrods-
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Dr. W. H. Skaggs, Public Health Officer,
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Miss Virginia Robinson, Fayette County Health Department, Lex—
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Miss Ethel H. Snapp, Fayette County Health Department, Lexington

Miss Ruth Worthington, Fayette County Health Deparment, Lex-
ington

Dr. Samuel L. Andelman, Paintsville and Magoftin County Health
Officer

Miss Irene Nooe, Attendance Officer, Mercer County, Harrodsburg

Miss Mary Vance Day, Elementary Supervisor, Somerset City
Schools

C. W. Marshall, Superintendent of Adair County Schools, Columbia

Anderson and Shelby

Some Workshop Results
The workshop, the first of its kind held in Kentucky (in so far
as is known) was, based upon audition and the spontaneous testi-
mony of persons participating. one ol’ the most stimulating, instruc-
tive and inspiring experiences remembered by the coordinators. The
magnificent work of the members ol‘ the State Department of Health
(highlighted by the brilliant discourse of Dr. English), the profound
discussion upon the subject of nutrition, with its vital ramifications,
by Dr. Static Erickson. the zealous presentation of the physical
needs of Kentucky school building's by the Hon. John XV. Brooker,
the enlightening)" expositions of mental hygiene and welfare needs by
Dr. A. M. Lyon, and Miss Elizabeth Pike—in fact, all, particularly
the distinguished work of Dr. Meece. the director, was oi’ a calibre
to do credit to any national conference of prol‘essional people. The
group was fortunate enough also to have the pleasure of the brief
attendance 01‘ Dr. Masters and of Mr. Seay. Their suggestions were
helpful.
' Although a vast amount ol’ material was presented, the analyzer-
might list the minimum results in this type oi? outline:
l. Sanitation (Even ii’ the county
{J‘t‘Ttine established a l‘ew sanitary toilets, a l'cw sanitary pumps, in

coordinators succeed in

il«l\'lllf_1‘ made a l'ew school grounds more healthful, causing: more

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paint to be spread, in helping to secure pure water for a few schools,
in teaching a few children the importance of killing and preventing
disease germs—thereby helping them to become healthier and thereby
saving lives—something will have been accomplished.)

2. Innnunization (If they succeed in having a modest number
of children, grmvn-ups as well, immunized against certain diseases~
diphtheria, smallpox, whooping cough, etcbsomething vital will
have been achieved.)

3. Clinics (The coordinators will work with the local health
officers in conducting clinic—general physical examinations and
special, such as eye, ear. nose, throat, dental and tubercular. If they
can follow up, which means saving lives, they will have done a fine
work.)

4. Home Nursing (in some of the counties classes, composed
of high school girls, are being organized for instruction in home
nursing and hospital practice, which training will greatly benefit
the home. the community and the nation.

5. Nutrition and Lunehrooms (If the coordinators and teachers
are able to teach the effect of nutrition upon the human body to a
few score of children—and cause them to make proper nutritional
practices habitual, so that the effect is felt in the homes—then some-
thing quite salutary will have been accomplished. The lunehroom
may be the practice center of good nutrition; it helps to make the
children healthy; it sets an example in proper foods and serving
which will have a benign effect upon the home and the community;
it is a blessing to those children who do not receive enough good,
nutritious food. Every lunchroom which the, coordinator is instru-
mental in obtaining will reflect itself in healthier bodies, sounder
minds, increased years of life and happier living.

6. Physical Education and Summer Camps (It was generally
agreed that each school should’plau a general physical education
program, in which each child participates, and that the gymnasium
should be open to all. Agreed also were all that more games should
he learned (more, guidance material obtained) and more playground

equipment obtained, 1:)a1'ticularly in the rural communities. It was
agreed also that the entire community, adults as well as youths;
should be encouraged to play; particularly was the idea of establish-
ing rural community—hm[scs encouraged. Little time was available
for discussion of the important subject of szunnm' camps.

7. First Aid (Unfortunately p 'actieally no time was available
for discussion of this vital subject. It was agreed, however, that
each s