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
| Harry Hascall Moore - Public health - 1923 - 624 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...detrimental to health. Most of these defects are remediable. In 1923, Doctor Wood wrote that he believed these figures were still essentially accurate for the country... | |
| Athletics - 1923 - 528 pages
...teeth 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...detrimental to health. Most of these defects are remediable. For the adult who has no business, no profession, no object in life, no purpose to fulfill, and no... | |
| National Education Association of the United States. Meeting - Education - 1918 - 826 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... | |
| Arthur Evans Wood - Civic improvement - 1928 - 632 pages
...Wood made the following statement : n "Seventy-five per cent or 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. "Over one per cent, or 200,000 of the school children are handicapped by organic heart disease. "At... | |
| Anna Verona Dorris - Public schools - 1928 - 514 pages
...defective, and the additional fact that statistics still show that " 75 per cent of the school children of the United States have physical defects which are potentially or actually detrimental to health," make the problem of health education one of supreme importance. Every healthy-minded citizen wants... | |
| William Isaac Thomas, Dorothy Swaine Thomas Thomas - Child development - 1928 - 630 pages
...16,000,000 — have defective teeth. . . . ' 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 ' . . . " In 1923, Dr. Wood wrote that he believed these figures were still essentially accurate for... | |
| Plumbers - 1918 - 818 pages
...school children who are in the United States are mentally defective. Seventy-five per cent (16,500,000) have physical defects, which are potentially or actually detrimental to health. Most of these defects are remedial. These almost unbelievable figures were presented to the national council of education by... | |
| William Isaac Thomas, Dorothy Swaine Thomas Thomas - Child development - 1928 - 632 pages
...16,000,000 — have defective teeth. . . . ' 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 ' . . . " In 1923, Dr. Wood wrote that he believed these figures were still essentially accurate for... | |
| Piers Beirne - Chicago school of criminology - 2005 - 394 pages
...16,000,000 — have defective teeth '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 ' sonality which had been made in the reformatory. Furthermore, if the crime for which James was committed... | |
| James McKeen Cattell, Will Carson Ryan, Raymond Walters - Education - 1921 - 726 pages
...improvement of the health of the children. 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... | |
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