CLEVELAND EDUCATION SURVEY

HEALTH WORK IN
THE PUBLIC
SCHOOLS

LEONARD P. AYRES
and
MAY AYRES

THE SURVEY COMMITTEE OF THE
CLEVELAND FOUNDATION
CLEVELAND · OHIO

1915

Copyright, 1915, by
THE SURVEY COMMITTEE OF THE
CLEVELAND FOUNDATION

WM·F. FELL CO·PRINTERS
PHILADELPHIA

THE SURVEY COMMITTEE OF THE
CLEVELAND FOUNDATION

Charles E. Adams, Chairman
Thomas G. Fitzsimons
Myrta L. Jones
Bascom Little
Victor W. Sincere

Arthur D. Baldwin, Secretary
James R. Garfield, Counsel
Allen T. Burns, Director

THE EDUCATIONAL SURVEY

Leonard P. Ayres, Director

Team work between physician and nurse in Cleveland.

FOREWORD

This report on "Health Work in the Public Schools" is one of the 25 sections of the report of the Educational Survey of Cleveland conducted by the Survey Committee of the Cleveland Foundation in 1915. Twenty-three of these sections will be published as separate monographs. In addition there will be a larger volume giving a summary of the findings and recommendations relating to the regular work of the public schools, and a second similar volume giving the summary of those sections relating to industrial education. Copies of all these publications may be obtained from the Cleveland Foundation. They may also be obtained from the Division of Education of the Russell Sage Foundation, New York City. A complete list will be found in the back of this volume, together with prices.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

•  page
• Forward5
• List of Illustrations and Diagrams9
• The Argument for Medical Inspection11
• Health and School Progress13
• Examinations for Physical Defects14
• Objections to Medical Inspection16
• How the Work Started18
• The Present System20
• The School Nurse21
• Cleveland's Dispensaries24
• Dental Clinics28
• Eye Clinics30
• Co-operation of College for Barbers32
• The Medical Inspection Staff32
• The Plan of Concentrating Interests34
• Uniform Procedure37
• Vaccination39
• Future Development43
• Ten Types of Health Work46
• Health and Education and Business48
• Summary54

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

•  facing page
• Team work between physician and nurse in Cleveland.Frontispiece
• Tony's tonsils need attention17
• Either doctor or nurse visits every school every day