Seventy- five per cent. — 16,000,000 of the school children of the United States have physical defects which are potentially or actually detrimental to health. Most of these defects are remediable. Journal of the Outdoor Life - Page 1871919Full view - About this book
| Thomas Denison Wood - Health education - 1918 - 22 pages
...are deadly menaces to their owners. Seventy- five per cent. — 16,000,000 of the school children of the United States have physical defects which are...detrimental to health. Most of these defects are remediable. One of the appalling revelations of recent years is the conclusion based on unrefuted evidence that... | |
| National Education Association of the United States - Education - 1918 - 824 pages
...in economy and efficiency. Of the school children of the United States 75 per cent — 16,000,000— have physical defects which are potentially or actually...detrimental to health. Most of these defects are remediable. One of the appalling revelations of recent years is the conclusion, based on unrefuted evidence, that... | |
| National Education Association of the United States - Education - 1918 - 824 pages
...economy and efficiency. Of the school children of the United States 75 per cent — 16,000,000 — have physical defects which are potentially or actually...detrimental to health. Most of these defects are remediable. One of the appalling revelations of recent years is the conclusion, based on unrefuted evidence, that... | |
| Medicine - 1918 - 364 pages
...high authority on health problems in education, makes the following astoiinding statements:— 75%, or 16,000,000, of the school children in the United States, have physical defects which arc potentially or actually *Dr. Eugene L. Piske, Medical Director of HIP Life Extension Institute,... | |
| United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Education and Labor - 1920 - 118 pages
...UNPREPARED FOR PEACE. (a) Physical deficiency among school children. " Seventy-five per cent, 15,000,000, of the school children in the United States have physical...actually detrimental to health. Most of these defects can be remedied." (Dr. Thomas D. Wood, chairman joint committee on health problems in education of... | |
| Republican National Committee - Campaign literature - 1920 - 508 pages
...examinati. required for the regular army or marines in times of peac. It is also stated that 75 per cent of the school children in the United States have physical...are potentially or actually detrimental to health, but that most of them can t: remedied. This statement is from an eminent medical author ity in educational... | |
| National Education Association of the United States - Education - 1921 - 912 pages
...158 NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSOCIATION Seventy-five per cent — 16,000,000 — of the school children of the United States have physical defects which are...detrimental to health. Most of these defects are remediable. Very few of them are being remedied. The business of keeping the school children of this country in... | |
| Amy Elizabeth Pope - 1921 - 562 pages
...teeth." To summarize, 75 per cent. — 15,000,000 — of the 20,000,000 children in the schools of the United States have physical defects which are potentially or actually detrimental to health. Undoubtedly, a large number of these defects are the result of lack of hygienic living and many of... | |
| Ernest Carroll Moore - Education - 1922 - 434 pages
...other joint defects 10 to 20% Defective teeth 50 to 75% Seventy-five per cent of the school children of the United States have physical defects which are...actually detrimental to health; most of these defects can be remedied. The schools are not sending out citizens with health satisfactory for maximum efficiency,... | |
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