The American Journal of School Hygiene, Volume 5American Journal of School Hygiene, 1921 - School hygiene |
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Page 12 - ... law. The enforcement of school-attendance laws by city, town, or county school authorities shall be under state supervision. Factory Inspection and Physical Examination of Employed Minors Inspection for the enforcement of all childlabor...
Page 14 - The aim of all provision for children who must be removed from their own homes should be to secure for each child home life as nearly normal as possible, to safeguard his health, and to insure for him the fundamental rights of childhood. To a much larger degree than at present, family homes may be used to advantage in the care of such children.
Page 13 - State supervision should be conceived and exercised in harmony with democratic ideals which invite and encourage the service of efficient altruistic forces of society in the common welfare.
Page 11 - Employment certificates. Provision shall be made for issuing employment certificates to all children entering employment who are under 18 years of age. An employment certificate shall not be issued to the child until the issuing officer has received, approved, and filed the following: 1. A birth certificate, or, if unobtainable, other reliable documentary proof of the child's age. 2. Satisfactory evidence that the child has completed the eighth grade. 3. A certificate of physical...
Page 11 - A child shall not be allowed to go to work until he has had a physical examination by a public-school physician or other medical officer especially appointed for that purpose by the agency charged with the enforcement of the law, and has been found to be of normal development for a child of his age and physically fit for the work at which he is to be employed.
Page 20 - The childwelfare legislation of every State requires careful reconsideration as a whole at reasonable intervals in order that necessary revision and co-ordination may be made and that new provisions may be incorporated in harmony with the best experience of the day.
Page 10 - ... and are legally and regularly employed shall be required to attend day continuation schools at least eight hours a week. Children between 16 and 18 who have not completed the eighth grade or children who have completed the eighth grade and are not regularly employed shall attend full-time school. Occupational training especially adapted to their needs shall be provided for those children who are unable because of mental subnormality to profit by ordinary school instruction.
Page 14 - Before a child is placed in other than a temporary foster home, adequate consideration should be given to his health, mentality, character and family history and circumstances. Arrangements should be made for correcting remediable physical defects and disease. Complete records of the child are necessary to a proper understanding of his heredity and personality, and of his development and progress while under the care of the agency. Particular consideration should be given to children who are difficult...
Page 9 - ... 8. Nutrition classes for physically subnormal children, and the maintenance of midmorning lunch or hot noonday meal when necessary. 9. Examination by psychiatrist of all atypical or retarded children. 10. Education of school child in health essentials.
Page 7 - Clinics, such as dental clinics and venereal clinics, for needed treatment during pregnancy. 3. Maternity hospitals, or maternity wards in general hospitals, sufficient to provide care in all complicated cases and for all women wishing hospital care; free or part-payment obstetrical care to be provided in every necessitous case at home or in a hospital. 4. All midwives to be required by law to show adequate training, and to be licensed and supervised. 5. Adequate income to allow the mother to remain...