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May
2
Rebecca W. Sears (Chandler)
82
8
7
Cerebral Embolism
5
Matilda A. Weston
65
6
Pneumonia. (Died in Somerville)
.
66
26
69
26
30
Jonathan Glass
84
4
25
June
11
Granville Baker
69
6
2
Cancer. (Died in Plympton)
11
Florence A. Whitney (Chandler)
42
8
15
Pleuro Pneumonia. (Died in Eastor )
66
13
Elizabeth Baker (Meehan)
76
2
26
Cerebral Embolism
6.
21
Abigail G. Chandler (Gardner)
69
10
Myo Carditis
25
Nancy Winsor (Peterson)
85
18
66
28
Agnes McCoy
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1 11
12
Malnutrition
July 66
16
Susan W. Clark (Eldridge)
48
6
22
21
Walter M. Sampson
19
6
3
Accidental Drowning
Aug.
20 Edmund H. Sears
66
5 8
16
Accidental Drowning Malignancy of Stomach
Sept.
6 Sarah A Mann
25
5
6 Pulmonary Tuberculosis
[in Quincy
9 Frederick A. S. Raymond
7
5
14 1 Paralysis. (Died in Beverly)
15
Frank H. Weston
52
Ordema of Lungs
James II. and Jane James and Judith
James P. and Persis L. Sparrow J. D. and Ada J. Erid and Damny Nathaniel and Rebecca
26
Hannah Killian
64
Acute Bright's disease. (Died in Hadley)
25
Bailey Chandler
Martin and Nancy Julius B. and Helen D.
6
Rosini Witherell (Goodwin)
84
10
19
Myo Carditis
Philander and
Herman and Jane
14
Edgar J. Smith
60
20
Cancer
Elbridge and Martha
10
75
22
Natural Causes. (Died in Newton)
Mary E. Ilamilton Joanna L. Cox
Chronic Nephritis. (Died in Hanover) Angina Pectoris
Jonathan and Desire George and Hannah Harrison and -
68
3
21 15
Senil Dimentia
Merlin and Peggy Esaius and Lydia William and Christine
12 Deborah B. Weston
85
Valvular Disease of IIcart. (I). in N.Bedf'd) Tuberculosis
21 Charles L. Parratt
18
20 Hannah G. Freeman (Hunt)
84
5 Mitral dis. Heart & Lobar Pneumonia. (D.
James D. and Elizabeth G. Galus and Ella C. William G. and Marvin B. Enos and Thankful Samuel and Deborah
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21
Abbie T. Harlow
Pneumonia (Died in Marshfield)
David and Edith
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AGE
CAUSE OF DEATH.
PARENTS' NAMES.
Joseph and Selina
Tuberculor Pneumonia
Septicaemia. (Died in Taunton)
Sept.
10 | 18 27 1
Mary E. Dorman (Chandler) Asa Chandler
Joseph N. Moorehead
5
Percy Montague Abby J. Delano (W+ ston)
41 82 91
1
28
6.
26
Rebecca C. Stetson (Weston)
4
5
66
30
Orella M. Fr. eman (Stevens)
78
4
4
6.
4
Su-an B. Fowle (Rickard)
66
9 Rebecca S. Stetson (Grass)
Philemon L. Barriault (Lamond)
47
6
27
Acute Bronchitis
Dec. 3 66 11
Robert T. Randall
82
4
1
Pneumonia
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21 Abby O. Wadsworth (Winsor) 20 Sadie M. Remick (Whiting)
84 36
5
19
Bronchitis
66
24
Henrietta B. Frizzel (Tower)
34
11
26
Harrison Loring
85
2
1
66
27 Van R. Chandler
30
4
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Broncho Pneumonia Apoplexy
James and Mary Noah and Abigail Thomas and
James and Abigail Nathaniel and Martha John O. and Sarah
Jonathan Y. and Cynthia
Thomas and Mary Charles and Beulah George C. and Louisa John W. and Emily Samuel and Nancy Henry B. and Minerva A.
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60
10
9 Mitral Regurgitation. (Died in Somerville)
86 73 62
10
2
8 20
14 Dysentery Intestin al Obstruction Mitral Disease of Heart
Oct.
Exposure. (Died in Kingston) Chalelithiasis
Pneumonia Chronic Cyotitis Old Age
84 82 43
10
2 13
Bronchitis. (Died in Cohasset)
5
Pneumonia
30
Edward M. Magoun
8
11 Broncho Pneumonia
John L. Staff
16
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BIRTHS RECORDED IN DUXBURY DURING THE YEAR, 1907
DATE
NAME
PARENTS' NAME.
MAIDEN NAME OF MOTHER
January
14
Charles Edward Sprague
Arthur A. and Alice M.
Simmons
17
Elden Fred Wadsworth
Fred W. and Eva M.
Publicover
February
2
Isabelle Vernon Freeman
Alfred V. and Nellie
Studley
6
Earl Freeman Belknap
L. Burton and Lulu M.
Freeman
66
Emile Charette
Joseph and Eugenie
Duchaine
March
3
Fredrick Winslow Flood
Thomas H. and Annie M.
Winslow
.
11
Emily Catherine Peterson
James H. JJr. and Catherine T.
MeCabe
April .
24
George Bailey Cushing
George B and Hattie
Hansche
12
Fred Whitman Soule
Sidney C. and Mercy A.
Parker
May., .6
30
Edith Austin White
Henry F. and Emma F.
Randall
June
5
Elliot Trull Spaulding
Roger and Helen C.
Green
10
Leroy Franklin Baker
Frank C. and Clara J.
Merry
July 16
23
Paul Randall Bates
William T. and Florence
Steele
Alpheus and Anna N.
Belknap
66
30
Francis Rouillard
Frederick T. and Margaret E.
Anderson
September 66
12
Frank Kievit
frie and Carrie
Von Horn
6
8
Gordon Worth Weston
Joshua B and Eva E.
Hall
October
6
David Lynch
1
William F. and Ellen
Flynn
November 5
Irene Lawrence Soule
Guy L. and Ada M.
Weatherbee
Walter R. and Amy B.
Rice
66
20
John B. and Philemon
Laronde
December
8
Henry Russell Chandler
Henry C and Edith A.
Hunt
16
11
Robert Ethan Merry
Hortense E. and Ruth L.
Hatch
Celina Pearl Upham
Charles E. and Celina
Plombes
:
Percy Edwin Bennett
Arthur C. and Grace M.
Soule
GEORGE HI. STEARNS, Town Clerk.
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30
Dorothy Stetson Walker
Bertha Elizabeth Chubbuck
George W. and Allien E.
Chandler
7
Laurel Bradford Freeman
Judson Briggs and Lena M.
Mahoney
Alice Loretta Lych
11
Wilmer Aifred Morgan Mary Ann Barriault
15
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MARRIAGES RECORDED IN THE TOWN OF DUXBURY DURING THE YEAR ENDING DECEMBER 31, 1907.
January 3. At Boston, Aubrey A. Whitman of Duxbury and Maud Mattatall of Boston, by Rev. James E. Norcross. January 10. At Boston, Guy C. Peterson of Duxbury and Ada K. Wood of Lexington, by Rev. Appleton Grannis.
January 11. At Duxbury, Charles C. Granger of Springfield and Helen M. Edgar of Duxbury, by Rev. Andrew Hahn. February 21. At Norwell. Waldo L. McPhee of South Fram- ingham and Nora E. Hunt of Duxbury, by Rev. Frederick H. Kidder.
February 28. At Providence, R. I., Charles C. McNaught of Duxbury and Clara L. Sinnott of Marshfield, by Rev. Alex- ander Mitchell.
March 26. At Kingston, Henry A. Anderson of Duxbury and Watie A. Ellison of North Abington, by Rev. C. Y. De- Normandie.
April 6. At Boston, J. de Vere Simmons and Isabel H. Moore, both of Duxbury, by Rev. Alexander Mann.
May 18. At Duxbury, Fred T. Atwood of Pembroke and Jen- nie M. Hodge of Duxbury, by Rev. Henry B. Mason.
June 6. At Duxbury, Howard E. Pierce of Pembroke and Sarah M. Nickerson of Chelsea, by Rev. J. C. Osgood.
June 17. At Plymouth, James E. Mckeown and Lena Arsenault, both of Duxbury, by Rev. Andrew F. Haber- stroh.
June 21. At Kingston, John W. Grantham of Pembroke and Maud G. Hunt of Duxbury, by Rev. C. Y. DeNormandie. June 22. At Norwell, Arthur H. Churchill of Duxbury and Millie G. Chamberlain of Norwell. by Rev. Joseph Dinzey. June 26. At Duxbury, Walter I. Paulding of Everett and Mabel B. Maglathlin of Duxbury, by Rev. H. B. Mason. July 18. At Duxbury, Mahlon F. Proctor and Isabella C. Fowler, both of Duxbury, by Rev. Samuel A. B. Mercer. August 6. At Duxbury, Howard H. Carroll and Mabel E. Huse, both of Abington, by Rev. H. B. Mason.
August 31. At Providence, R. I., Frank L. Paine of Wilton, Me., and Carrie M. Winsor of Duxbury, by Rev. Alexander Mitchell.
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September 15. At Kingston, Clarence R. Drew of Kingston and Charity R. Stearns of Duxbury, by Rev. C. Y. De- Normandie.
September 18. At Duxbury, Frederick H. Allen of South Braintree and Grace M. Hastings of Duxbury, by Rev. Andrew Hahn.
September 21. At Kingston, Earl J. Freeman and Mary J. Heffernan, both of Duxbury, by Rev. E. L. Hamilton.
September 25. At Duxbury, Everett L. Estes and Annie Beades, both of Duxbury, by Rev. J. C. Osgood.
October 24. At Duxbury, Paul C. Peterson and Elizabeth S. Sampson, both of Duxbury, by Rev. Andrew Hahn.
October 31. At Plymouth, William C. Baker and Josephine B. Ellis, both of Duxbury, by Rev. J. W. Annas.
November 28. At Duxbury, William A. Freeman of Duxbury
and Mary E. Blanchard of Livermore, Me., by Rev. H. B. Mason.
December 14. At Duxbury, Will Seccombe of California and Mary J. Fowler of Duxbury, by Rev. Samuel A. B. Mercer.
TOWN WARRANT.
PLYMOUTH, ss.
To either of the constables of the Town of Duxbury in said county.
GREETING :
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts you are directed to notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town of Duxbury, qualified to vote in elections, and in Town af- fairs, to meet at the Town Hall, in said Duxbury, on Mon- day, the third day of March next, at ten o'clock in the fore- noon, then and there to act on the following articles :
Article 1. To choose a moderator to preside in said meeting.
Art. 2. Will the Town accept Sec. 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 71, 72, and 73, of Chapter 27 of the Public Statutes, in re- gard to the election of Selectmen, Assessors and Overseers of the Poor of the Town of Duxbury, electing above named officers the following year for terms of one, two and three years, respectively.
Art. 3. To choose all necessary Town officers.
Art. 4. To hear the annual report of the several Town Officers and Committees, and act thereon.
Art. 5. Will the Town grant licenses for the sale of in- toxicating liquors for the ensuing year, the vote to be by ballot "Yes" or "No" in answer to the question, "Shall li- censes be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors in this town ?"
Art. 6. To raise and appropriate such sums of money as will be necessary to defray Town charges for the en- suing year.
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ยท Art. 7. To revise and accept the list of Jurors as pre- pared by the Selectmen.
Art. 8. Will the Town appropriate one hundred dol- lars ($100) to be expended under the direction of William Wadsworth Post No. 165, G. A. R., for the observance of Memorial Day ?
Art. 9. Will the Town authorize their Treasurer to hire money in anticipation of taxes ?
Art. 10. Will the Town accept the provisions of Sec- tion 335, Chapter II, Revised Laws, relating to the election of Town Clerk for the term of three years ?
Art. II. What action will the Town take relative to the highway laid out by the County Commissioners, and order- ed built to include Mattakeesett Court, and provide for the expense of same.
Art. 12. Will the Town raise and appropriate five hun- dred dollars ($500) for the repairs of Congress street and bridge from "Hanks Bridge," so-called to Franklin street.
Art. 13. Will the Town reconsider the vote passed, by petition, March 5, 1900, whereby it was voted that the Se- lectmen be instructed to give F. B. Knapp a quit claim deed for any land that is left between the road to be worked at "Point End" and the County Commissioners' line over the Cliff, in exchange for a similar deed from him of land used as a road ? By Request.
Art. 14. Will the Town accept "Upland Road" and "Bayside Road" as laid out and built by Mrs. Georgiana B. Wright on her property at Point End ? By Request.
Art. 15. To consider having a committee on appropria- tions and take action on any matter appertaining thereto. By Request.
Art. 16. Will the Town vote to hire ten thousand dol- lars ($10,000) for crushed stone roads, to paid two thous- and dollars ($2,000) yearly. By Request.
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Art. 17. Will the Town raise and appropriate two thousand dollars for crushed stone roads. By Request.
Art. 18. Will the Town raise and appropriate four hun- dred dollars ($400) for use of the Tree Warden. One hundred and fifty dollars ($150) to be expended for spray- ing machine.
Art. 19. Will the Town raise and appropriate five thousand dollars ($5,000) for a two-room school building and land. One thousand dollars ($1,000) to be paid year- ly.
Art. 20. Will the Town accept the road as laid out by the Selectmen, commencing at Washington street and continu- ing over land of C. E. Baldwin heirs, and land of the Lucy Marsh heirs?
Art. 21. Will the Town accept "Mayflower" as the name for the Town Cemetery, as recommended by the Cemetery Trustees in their report of last year.
Art. 22. What action will the Town take to prevent the digging of clams on all shores, under the control of the Town, from April 1, 1902 to October 1, 1902.
Art. 23. What action will the Town take to have all bills for labor against the Town presented to the Town Treas- urer the same year that the labor is done.
Art. 24. To see what action the Town will take in re- gard to protecting their clams.
Art. 25. Will the Town take action relative to the pur- chase of fire extinguishers.
Art. 26. What action will the Town take relative to fur- nishing a public dumping ground.
And you are directed to serve this Warrant by posting at- tested copies, thereof, as prescribed by vote of the Town, seven days, at least. before the time of holding said meet- ing.
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Hereof fail not, and make due return of this Warrant, with your doings thereon, to the Town Clerk, at the time and place of meeting as aforesaid.
Given under our hands this fifteenth day of February, in the year one thousand nine hundred and two ( 1902).
HENRY H. LEWIS, EDMUND H. SEARS, WENDELL PHILLIPS. Selectmen of Duxbury.
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ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
SCHOOL COMMITTEE
OF THE
Town of Duxbury
FOR THE
Year ending December 3 I
1907
Duxbury 5
SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
Nathaniel K. Noyes, term expires, 1908
Albert M. Goulding, term expires,
1909
William J. Alden, term expires, 1910
SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS. John E. DeMeyer, Egypt.
TEACHERS FOR 1907-1908.
Name, School and Post Office Address. Herbert E. Walker, Partridge Academy, Millbrook.
Eva W. Eldredge, Partridge Academy, Millbrook. Mary A. Perry, Partridge Academy, Millbrook. Mary F. Kauffmann, Grammar, Duxbury. Florence A. Chaffin, Village, Duxbury. Ellen W. Downey, South Duxbury, Kingston.
Grace M. Peterson, Island Creek, Millbrook. Mrs. Ida M. Raymond, Tarkiln, Kingston. Elizabeth A. Hastings, Ashdod, Duxbury. Ella W. Hodgdon, North Duxbury, Duxbury. Sadie E. Paulding, Millbrook, Duxbury. Mrs. Mary L. Devereux, Point, Duxbury. Mrs. Lillian C. Stoddard, teacher of music, North Scituate. Harriet J. Ford, teacher of drawing, Millbrook.
REPORT OF SCHOOL COMMITTEE.
The School Committee of the Town of Duxbury herewith submit their annual report, together with the reports of the Superintendent of Schools and the Supervisors of Music and Drawing, for the year ending December 31, 1907.
At a joint meeting of the committees of Scituate, Marshfield and Duxbury, held April 27, Mr. John E. DeMeyer was unani- mously elected Superintendent of Schools for the ensuing year.
All the needed repairs have been made on our school houses during the year. A new fence has been built on the south side of the Point school house lot and grading done around the house, and Lithoplate blackboards put in at the Island Creek school room.
The Truant Officers for the present year are Wm. J. Turner, Thaddeus W. Chandler, Warren E. Peterson, Warren E. Prince and the Superintendent.
As the itemized account of the uses made of the Massachu- setts school fund received from the State Treasurer does not appear elsewhere, it is herewith appended.
ORDERS DRAWN BY THE SCHOOL COMMITTEE
From the Massachusetts School Fund in the year 1907 for the Support of Schools.
Paid-
Herbert E. Walker, teaching high school, $160 00
Eva W. Eldredge, teaching high school, 140 00
Mary A. Perry, teaching high school, 66 00 Marguerite Haskell, teaching high school, 34 00 Treasurer Partridge Academy, rent, 320 00
$120 00
SCHOOL INCIDENTALS.
Ginn & Company, $ 28 95
American Book Company, 33 68
Houghton Mifflin & Company, 8 16
Allyn & Bacon, 10 34
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Edward E. Babb & Co.,
198 44
Thompson, Brown & Co.,
22 80
Silver, Burdette & Co.,
15 24
$317 61
Total expenditures,
$1,097 61
STATEMENT OF ACCOUNT OF MASSACHUSETTS SCHOOL FUND FOR THE YEAR 1907.
Unexpended January 1, 1907,
$149 05
Received State Treasurer dividend Mass. School
fund January 26, 1907,
613 25
Total,
$1,362 80
Expended for support of schools, 1,09% 61
Unexpended, $265 19
The committee would make the following recommendations for the ensuing year :
Support of schools,
$6,000 00
School incidentals and repairs of school houses,
800 00
Salary of Superintendent,
250 00
NATHANIEL K. NOYES, ALBERT M. GOULDING, WILLIAM J. ALDEN, School Committee.
SUPERINTENDENT'S REPORT.
To the School Committee of Duxbury:
I take pleasure in submitting for your consideration my sec- ond annual report. The schools of Duxbury have progressed steadily throughout the year in spite of the fact that during the months of February and March the work was very badly broken up by sickness. So prevalent was that illness that the Point school was closed for a short time, and in many of the others the percentage of attendance was cut down nearly fifty per cent. The result was failure to do the required work of that term. Since that time everything possible has been done to bring up the standard of the grades, and with very few exceptions that has been accomplished.
Very few changes have been made in our teaching force. The vacancy caused by the resignation of Miss Sampson at the high school and Miss Grace Hastings at Millbrook have been filled as follows : Miss Mary A. Perry, Smith's College, at the high school ; Miss, Sadie Paulding was transferred from Ashdod to Millbrook and Miss Elizabeth Hastings elected to the Ashdod position.
Courses of Study.
The course in reading, which was introduced into the first grade last year has been extended into the second, and will be extended through the higher grades as time goes on. Supple- mentary reading material has been added to the course in near- ly all the grades, thus adding to the child's interest in reading by giving him new and fresh material as soon as he has com- pleted his regular book. We do a child a very doubtful service when we teach him how to read and not what to read. Selec- tions from the masters of English should be put into his hands as fast as he is able to read them understandingly. In that way the child will, with the aid of the teacher, select the good from the bad and will acquire a taste for the kind of literature that elevates and inspires. New arithmetics have been introduced,
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and consequently some modifications in the course have been made. Every effort has been made to make the work as practi- cal as possible.
The work in language has been modified and more emphasis placed in written work in all the grades. We cannot expect to make poets or novelists of our boys and girls, but the work in lan- guage should be of such a quality as to enable them to use cor- rect English in all written exercises. This can be accomplish- ed only by long continued and conscientious work in written English. In many instances the pupils hear incorrect Eng- lish at home and on the play grounds, and the teacher is obliged to counteract the impressions thus formed.
In all language exercises opportunity should be given for the greatest possible individuality on the part of the pupil. The language exercise must be related to the child's interests. What a child doesn't know about his pet plants and pet animals, the things he has reared and fed, or the numerous other childish things he is interested in, is scarcely worth knowing ; when he be- gins to tell of these with language or pen, the story glows with warmth and individuality. A course that attempts to substi- tute for such work reproduction, etc., defeats its own end.
Academy.
The work at the Academy has been uniformly good. The vacancy caused by Miss Sampson's resignation has been satis- factorily filled, and the work done of an excellent quality.
The new addition is a very valuable acquisition. It gives an opportunity for more and better work in the future. Under the old conditions the school was cramped for room, it had no suit- able place for experimental work in Science, and no place to do their work in drawing. Under the present conditions these dif- ficulties are obviated. The addition of two large splendidly equipped and lighted rooms should aid materially in raising the standard of the work done there.
The school is, however, handicapped by the eighth grade, and should be relieved of that grade as soon as suitable accommoda- tions can be found for it.
Consolidation.
In my last report I called attention to a plan for combining our schools so as to reduce the number of grades to four, and re- lieve the Academy of the eighth grade without any additional
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teaching force or cost of transportation. I wish once more to lay the same plan before you for your consideration. The Millbrook and South Duxbury schools are small, and have five grades each. By securing a new site for the Point school across the bridge and requiring part of the pupils that now go to the Point to go to Millbrook in the future, and by dividing the prim- ary scholars at the village between the Point and South Dux- bury, we would be able to put only four grades in the primary schools, this enable the teachers to divide their time among four instead of five grades, and materially aid in raising the standard of the work done. In the room left vacant at the village school, I would suggest that the fifth and six grades be placed, and in the present grammar room the seventh and eighth grades.
Such an arrangement would benefit the Academy by allowing the teachers to spend their time on the high school work without being obliged to do grammar work. It would then be possible, without additional teaching force, to put in a Commercial course in the Academy.
The teachers at the Academy need all their time and efforts for high school work, and at the same time it is not practical to place grammar grades under the instructions of teachers who have spent their entire time preparing themselves for high school work. This is a day of specialization, and for the salary we pay we can hardly expect to obtain assistants in our high school who have made a special study of both branches of the school prob- lem.
The schools in the western part of the town present a more serious problem. If any consolidation is attempted there it will necessitate transportation, and that means an additional outlay to start with. The town should, however, look to the interests of its children and consider money spent for their education well invested. It is good business economy to invest additional cap- ital when by the investment of that capital we can obtain a much greater per cent. of profits. A new school house of at least three rooms, should be erected at Tarkiln, and the pupils of North Duxbury, Ashdod and Island Creek transported to it. Under those conditions a well organized graded system could be estab- lished in the place of our present small schools of seven grades each.
School Physicians.
Prof. Search says, "If education is ever to aim at that which is
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complete and best, it must comprehend the entire child. Fun- damental in this, it seems right to expect that the product of the school shall be an individual blessed with good health. To that end school provisions and practices must not simply be permis- sive of health, but they must contribute directly to its realiza- tion."
At our last annual town meeting the town failed to raise the money necessary to provide physicians for the schools as required by law. The importance of the law requiring medical inspec- tion in our schools can be realized only by those who have an op- portunity to visit schools frequently, and who know something of the difficulties under which children are obliged to labor.
Statistics carefully collected and tabulated by eminent physi- cians show an astonishing increase of physical defects in children of school age. Doubtless part of these defects are due to causes foreign to their school life, but on the other hand many of them are due to causes to be found in school. Many of these defects come on so gradually that only the practiced eye of an expert can detect them in their early stages. Then is the time to remedy them, and that part of the work can best be done under the direc- tion of a school physician. Again comparative few people realize what a handicap imperfect sight or hearing, adnoids, etc., is to a child. The work is laid out for a healthy child, and if he is suffering from any of the many complaints of childhood, he cannot possibly do it satisfactorily. Many a child has been call- ed dull, when he simply needed medical attention to remedy some physical defect from which he was suffering.
The importance of medical inspection in our schools can hard- lv be overestimated, and it is to be hoped that the town will real- ize that importance and raise money for that purpose at the next annual meeting.
The Eye and Ear Test.
The importance of the senses of sight and hearing on the part of the pupils needs no comment. Every effort should be made both by parents and school authorities to discover and correct defects in those senses.
The present law requiring school authorities to test the eyes and ears of pupils has produced some startling results. Many cases of defective eyes and ears have been discovered, and re- ported to the parents. In most cases the parents sought profes-
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sional advice with good results, both to the health of the pupil and the quality of his work. There are cases, however, where the parents have failed to have their children's eyes attended to even after receiving such notices. The unfortunate conse- quences resulting from such neglect on the part of parents can hardly be exaggerated.
The child sustains irreparable injury through such neglect. Aside from the injury to the eyes, he is unable to do anything like his best work, consequently is obliged in some instances, to take two years to do the work he could otherwise easily do in one. Such neglect is, in my opinion, due to thoughtlessness, but such thoughtlessness as that which allows a child to injure a sense so important to his health, happiness and efficiency in life, is almost criminal in its nature.
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