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Identifier: childhealthprogr00coll (find matches)
Title: Child health program for parent-teacher associations and women's clubs ..
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Collier, Lucy Wood. (from old catalog) Child health organization, New York. (from old catalog)
Subjects: Children School hygiene
Publisher: Washington : Govt. print. off.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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as children be provided with cots or steamerchairs for a noon siesta. Teachers as well as children are in need of organized play andrecreation. Normal schools throughout the country are beginning torecognize this need, and are making an effort to give their studentsout-of-door-mindedness/ which means loving and making use of thegreat out-of-doors. (10) Communities can help the teachers by providing for out-of-doorsports, week-end camps and hikes, rowing, canoeing, etc. Rural communities have to face the problem of providing adequateboard and lodging, not to speak of home atmosphere for their teach-ers, often very young girls. When we realize that 80 per cent of theteachers in these country schools have only passed through theeighth grade, we can better understand the rural problem. Theteachers boarding out in local homes are often obliged to live withoutthe barest comforts of life. A large proportion are malnourished,because their food is insufficient, badly chosen, and badly cooked.
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No more Dread of the Dentist. Communities must supply adequate service for the correction as well as the detection of physical defects. (Courtesy Hudson Guild, N. Y.) Some communities are building cottages adjacent to schoolhouseswhich serve both as community centers and as actual homes where theteachers can do their own housekeeping. In small towns where theteachers come from a distance and even in our cities, communitiesshould provide both homes and social hfe for their teachers. Precious time can be saved by making health teaching a vitalpart of normal-school work. The State normal school at Trenton^N. J., has been made a health-demonstration center by the UnitedStates Biu-eau of Education. Last spring an entire week was givenover to health contests, exhibits, and lectures. The student bodywas divided into committees to prepare the lectures and exhibits ofthe following departments: (1) Biological department (personalhealth); (2) History department (public health. Federal, State, an

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