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1. The Fifteenth International Congress on Hygiene and Demography Held in Washington, D. C. from September 16 to October 5. 1912. I. Some Lessons and Suggestions from the Exhibition; II. Digests of Some of the Papers Presented at the Congress. Bulletin, 1913, No. 18. Whole Number 528

Author

Department of the Interior, United States Bureau of Education (ED) and Dresslar, Fletcher B.

Abstract

The Fifteenth International Congress on Hygiene and Demography, held in Washington City in the autumn of 1912, was a notable event in the history of sanitation and in the discussion of the conditions of the physical and mental health of the people. The exhibition held in connection with the congress was instructive in many ways, and contained much of interest to those who are responsible, directly or indirectly, for the health of children. The first section of the accompanying manuscript contains brief and accurate descriptions of some of the most important of the exhibits, and comprehensive summaries of their meaning. Topics addressed in this section include: (1) School buildings and school sanitation; (2) Hygiene and tuberculosis; (3) Industrial hygiene; (4) Nourishment of children; (5) Mental hygiene; (6) Sex hygiene; and (7) Experimental psychology. An appendix to Part I of this bulletin presents instructions relating to tuberculosis, distributed by the Department of Health, New York City. The second section consists of excerpts and summaries containing the gist of some of the most important papers read at the congress. These abstracts are as follows: (1) Ringworm in the Schools of Mexico (Manuel Uribe Y Troncoso); (2) School Disinfection (J. T. Ainslee Walker); (3) Campaign against Contagious Diseases of Children (Walther Ewald); (4) Management of Tuberculosis among School Children (Arthur T. Cabot); (5) Studies in the Relation of Physical Inability and Mental Deficiency to the Body Social (Isabelle T. Smart); (6) Education of Immigrants in School (William E. Chancellor); (7) Service of Medical Inspection of Schools to the Teacher (Helen MacMurchy); (8) Follow-Up System in Medical Inspection (Thomas A. Storey); (9) Hygiene of Children's Teeth (William H. Potter); (10) Dental Hygiene for Pupils of Public Schools (S. Adolphus Knopf); (11) Universal System of Measurements (Leotardo Matus Z.); (12) Development of Hygiene in Educational Institutions (Dudley A. Sargent); (13) Training in Personal Hygiene in Private and Public Schools (John W. Ritchie); (14) The Public School as a Factor to Lessen Infant Mortality (Henry L. Corr); (15) Physiological Age in Education (C. Ward Crampton; and (16) School Children of the Stock-Yards District of Chicago (Caroline Hedger). It is believed that the information contained in this bulletin will be permanently helpful to teachers, school officers, and others interested in the health of children and the sanitation of homes, schools, and other places in which they work. (Contains 1 footnote.) [Best copy available has been provided.]

Published
1913

2. Current Educational Topics No. III. I. The Duty of the State in the Medical Inspection of Schools; Results Which the Public May Rightfully Expect; II. Health Problems in Education; III. Sanitation in Rural Communities;. Bulletin, 1912, No. 24. Whole Number 496

Author

Department of the Interior, United States Bureau of Education (ED), Dresslar, F. B., Wood, Thomas D., and North, Charles E.

Abstract

One of the most important factors in the education of children is the establishment of their physical health, without which all learning and training must have less value for the individual and for society than they would have with it. Implicitly in the act creating the Bureau of Education and explicitly in recent acts of Congress, investigations in regard to the health of children, the publication of the results of these investigations, and giving such information as will help teachers and school officers in solving the problems of school hygiene and sanitation are made functions of the bureau. The three papers transmitted herewith, written by F. B. Dresslar, Ph. D., specialist in school hygiene and sanitation in the Bureau of Education; Thomas D. Wood, M. D., professor of physical education in Columbia University;. and Charles E. North, M. D., of New York City, in a very effective way to call the attention of teachers, school officers, and parents to the importance of the health of children, and offer many valuable practical suggestions as to the means of preserving it. (Contains 3 footnotes.) [Best copy available has been provided.]

Published
1912

3. School Hygiene: A Report of the Fourth International Congress of School Hygiene, Held at Buffalo, New York, August 25-30, 1913. Bulletin, 1913, No. 48. Whole Number 559

Author

Department of the Interior, United States Bureau of Education (ED) and Ryan, W. Carson

Abstract

The Fourth International Congress of School Hygiene, held at Buffalo, New York, August 25-30, was a notable event in the progress of health supervision as a part of public education. Because of its importance, the author was detailed to attend this conference and prepare a report of it. This report contains three parts: (1) An introduction giving a brief summary of proceedings of the congress; (2) A summary of some of the most important papers; and (3) Concrete date of the school hygiene movement as shown in the scientific exhibit made under the direction of the congress and in connection with it. This bulletin contains the following abstracts: (1) School hygiene and child life (James Grant); (2) The State's duty in health supervision (Eugene H. Porter); (3) Some health needs of school children (Joseph Lee); (4) Some important factors preventing normal growth and development in school life (D. P. MacMillan); (5) Notes on the health care of school children (S. Adolphus Knopf); (6) A working plan of securing medical inspection (Alfred B. Morrill); (7) Medical inspection in Rochester (George W. Goler); (8) Medical inspection in cities of 100,000 or less (Clinton P. McCord); (9) Medical inspection in Massachusetts: Correlation of work of school physicians and local and State health officers (W. C. Hanson); (10) The hygienic construction of schoolhouses from an architect's standpoint (W. H. Kilham); (11) Ventilation and recirculation (Luther H. Gulick); (12) Air washing as a means of obtaining clean air in buildings (George C. Whipple and Melville C. Whipple); (13) The hygiene of the janitor (Homer H. Seerley); (14) The ideal school site (William H. Brainerd); (15) Open-air school architecture (John H. Van Pelt); (16) Vitalizing school children (Walter W. Roach); (17) Resolutions on open-air schools adopted by the Fourth International Congress on School Hygiene; (18) Objects of the National Mouth Hygiene Association (W. G. Ebessole); (19) Methods of spreading the oralygiene propaganda (George F. Burke); (20) Control of dental caries in school children (P. B. McCullough); (21) Sight saving and brain building (F. Park Lewis); (22) School lighting (James Kerr); (23) Defective vision from the economic standpoint (Lewis C. Wessels); (24) History and present status of the movement (Louise Stevens Bryant); (25) The nutrition of school children (Ira S. Wile); (26) Teaching nutrition values through penny lunches (Mabel H. Kittredge); (27) Public opinion and sex hygiene (Charles W. Eliot); (28) The social emergency (William T. Foster); (29) Education versus punishment as a remedy for social evils (Hugh Cabot); (30) Points of attack in sex education (Thomas W. Balliet); (31) Character and the sex problem (Richard J. Tierney); (32) Some methods of teaching sex hygiene (Laura B. Garrett); (33) Child classification and child hygiene (Arnold Gesell); (34) The distinctive contribution of the psychoeducational clinic to the school hygiene movement (J. E. W. Wallin); (35) Mental hygiene in the school (William H. Burnham); (36) Effects of athletics upon health (C. F. Stokes); (37) School athletics from a medical standpoint (J. W. Kime); (38) Athletics of elementary schoolboys in Boston (Edgar L. Raub); (39) Problems of the teaching of hygiene (Lillian M. Towne); (40) Protection of student health in the College f the City of New York (Thomas A. Storey); (41) School health work in Mississippi (Susie V. Powell); (42) Museum cooperation in the teaching of hygiene and sanitation (C. E. A. Winslow); (43) An experiment in student control of school sanitation and hygiene (G. W. Hunter); (44) Improving hygiene conditions among the native school children of Alaska (William Hamilton); (45) Hygiene in the Philippine schools (A. J. McLaughlin); (46) How women's clubs can aid the hygiene movement (Elsa Denison); (47) The school and vital statistics (Franklin C. Gram); (48) Accident prevention as relating to child welfare (Marcus A. Dow); and (49) Intestinal parasites and the rural school (John A. Ferreli). An index is included. Individual sections contain footnotes. [Best copy available has been provided.]

Published
1913