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The first year's work in this department is beset with many difficulties. The work is new to the pupil and he is apt to look upon it as some form of recreation or play. We have to teach him at the outset that manual training is a subject that develops the mind and gives skill to the hand at one and the same time,
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and requires as close attention to the directions given as does . the solution of a problem in arithmetic. £ And not until the pu- pil realizes that he must concentrate his thought upon the work in hand can we expect anything but poor results. When he gets the proper control of his mind and uses it in connection with his work, then he begins to progress.
This is what we try to impress upon the pupil at the start and, therefore, we endeavor to hold all preliminary work up to a good standard of accuracy. He must learn where to draw his line, or mark, and must understand why it is placed there; and then he must try to work to it, not play to it.
We have also tried to have the pupils understand the value of the material they are using. The first cost of. the stock or lumber they get from the purchase slip, and to this they can add the labor cost, which gives them the real cost of the article made. Waste of material or time is not permitted, and work must be completed at the required time. Some pupils work faster than others, but the amount of work is not so great but what the average boy can complete it before the close of the period, if he pays proper attention to what is given him to do.
We have tried to be as economical with the use of material as possible, although lumber of all kinds has advanced in price from 200 to 400 per cent. since 1915. . You will find by refer- ring to lumber bills of that year that this year's bill will not ex- ceed that of the year mentioned.
Our aim has been to have the pupils make a practical ap- plication of the subjects taught in the grades. The careful measurements which we must insist upon, give them a knowl- edge of the uses of arithmetic, and the same is true of drawing. And with the co-operation of the grade teachers, we feel that this training will assist the boy to become a better student and a better citizen.
So far the work has been confined to the making of simple
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articles of practical use absolutely by hand. Only on very special occasions do we make use of the machines for work which the boys themselves can do. Every sample of work for which they are credited is the work of their hands under supervision. The laying out, marking, sawing. planing, jointing and beveling are required to be done by the pupils themselves, and must come up to a certain standard of accuracy, by frequent repetition if necessary, before they can pass on to the next piece of work.
If the work begun here in the lower grades could be con- tinued through the remaining grades and the high school we should have some very good specimens of workmanship to exhibit.
In closing let me say that we have about 175 boys taking work in this department.
Respectfully submitted,
ARTHUR W. GOULD.
PHYSICAL EDUCATION.
To the Superintendent of Schools,
Ipswich, Mass.
Dear Sir :---
In submitting my second annual report as director of
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physical education in the Public Schools of Ipswich I would gratefully acknowledge the hearty co-operation of yourself and the principals and teachers of the High School and the Gram- mar and Primary Schools.
The daily setting up drill in the Junior High School de- serves particular mention. In this school the teachers, under the able guidance of the principal, have developed a splendid set of leaders. This is one of decided social as well as physi- cal training value, and will in time head a general system of self-management in Physical Education and in Play and Recre- ation.
The prescribed system of exercises, games and dances is now well advanced in the Winthrop and the Burley Schools, and here also pupils are gradually trained in leadership.
I shall dwell at some length upon the educational value of developing pupil leadership in the Public Schools. I brought this system to the attention of the National Physical Education Society at their Annual Conference last spring, and find that it meets with heartiest approval of specialists, as well as of the leaders in American Education. I hope, therefore, that it will be possible for us to get better results in the Senior High School, but this is only possible if every member of the High School faculty is in accord with this idea, and they consequently aid heartily in the training of pupil leaders.
The dearth of child leaders in our present day meagre child-play-world is generally admitted by all educational ex- perts, and the last annual National Convention urged that group activities and self-management ought to be extended into all our school affairs.
"In the past, leaders originated ideas, they initiated move- ments, they gathered a following about them, they trained them to their point of view, and they created new conditions, new opportunities and new institutions."
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"The group followed leadership with eagerness and later learned discrimination. Frequently different leaders lead in different activities."
."In the traditions of primitive society it is a divinity or a hero who founds the city, establishes laws, settles government, wins wars, or invents writings, music, dances and games."
Thomas Carlyle in his "Heroes and Hero worship" shows this.
"The generic view of modern society minimizes the value of individual leadership. We see that governments and relig- ions grow, and they cannot go far ahead of the development of the people. The degree of economic determination also limits" both the group and its leaders."
. We have also learned how tradition gathers around per- sonality, blending under one name the virtues and the acts of many people. And yet we recognize that individual variants may give us leaders of incalculable value for all the purposes of life.
What makes Leadership?
The leader must have courage, even daring, a strong will and self esteem, for he must be able to stand alone. He must have vision and inventiveness, for he must lead the way.
He must have a keen sense of the values in others, that he may select able assistants.
He leads through affirmation, repetition, and contagion.
Loyalty Among Children.
In their weakness and absence of sense of law, and with their strong gregarious instinct. children naturally attach them- selves strongly to persons. They love to lead and they love to follow. Leadership with them, as with savages, is largely a matter of strength, The boy who can lick the others, jump far- ther, or do more daring things, becomes captain.
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Intellectual supremacy counts for little. Discipline is main- tained mainly by force or fear, though if the leader has a sense of fair play it helps him in the long run.
Leadership Through Prestige.
About the age of twelve, various forms of what we may call made-up leadership becomes important. Social position begins to be recognized. Wealth, and the possession of a fine home, servants, and carriages, may give a child an enviable po- sition. A little later, the way one wears his clothes, his man- ners, intellectual ability, or marked self-control give him a posi- tion of prominence.
Two Kinds of Leaders in America.
The masses admire strenuous characters who bluster and who deliver the goods, the political boss.
The more intelligent class admires and follows intelligent, self-controlled and devoted men.
A democracy must work to increase this second class.
Here we have the mental, moral and social significance of the value of stimulating pupil leaders in physical education. What an opportunity in turning our teachers from mere teach- ers of physical stunts into organizers of an efficient play-world of children, from mere lecturers of personal hygiene into engi- neers of psycho-physical happiness!
Remember that the instincts for fundamental motor activ- ities which lead to psycho-physical efficiency are within most nor- mal children, and that we cannot merely look upon our public schools as asylums for abnormal children who need remedial treatment.
Remember that modern schooling is to blame for many of our children's ailments, but that we ought still to think of our schools as mainly inhabited by normal children whose healthy normal development we must safeguard. Let us think out
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more preventative measures and less about corrective sys- tems.
But here we have also the physical significance of the value of promoting pupil leadership in physical education, because a child's fundamental faculty of learning is imitation, and it is much better for him to imitate the vigorous, graceful, normal and childlike poise of his mates than the fancy and age-handicapped contortions of us teachers.
There is a questionable stimulation of the imitative sense of children, of the deep knee bend, stoop standing, stretch stride standing example of the average school teacher who is becom- ingly dressed in semi-modified modern shoes, skirt and silk waist.
Let us point out against such doubtful physical example, the wonderful possibilities which will develop if these same very capable pedagogues and experts of child nature would de- vote their time to finding among the strong and vigorous, and the straight and graceful, those children who have the elements of good leaders in their mental and physical machinery and then train these for self-controlled and devoted leadership.
All this can be done in every class room by organizing six to eight groups. This can be developed further by the help of school yards and playgrounds, and by gardening, and excur- sions into woods and fields; not only in formal gymnastics, as a part of our medicine which we modern people must learn to take, but in games and play, in teams and clubs, in Scouting and gardening, in hiking and marching.
These germs planted in the daily sessions in the school room will germinate in the play world, in the home and back yards and the playgrounds.
Even if we have a specialist of a broad system of motor- izing and socializing our children in every city school building, unless this specialist develops pupil leadership, he cannot have
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effective hygienic practice daily in every school, but at most can have only two exercises a week in the gymnasium. This may be good as far as it goes but it can at best be only academic regimentation.
I invite the teachers to become organizers of groups and to become master-teachers. Learn to recognize born leaders and learn the fascination of training leadership and the psycho-phy- sical and social significance of pupil leadership.
Teach ideals just ahead of the group, teach heroes daring- ly, "a diamond with a flaw is better than a perfect pebble." Recognize leadership in the home and in the school. Give it its head; give it opportunity for expression through varied or- ganizations, especially with fundamental and instinctive motor activities.
Emphasize general excellency; moral excellence may give us prigs; intellectual ability may make exploiters, physical strength may make brutes.
Work for character; praise it; and give it room to act.
In closing I would like to recall to your attention the suc- cess of our First Annual School Field Day. I have held many such affairs in all parts of Massachusetts. This one was a great success and much of it was due to the splendid co-operation of public spirited citizens of Ipswich. I know that such affairs promote friendship and community loyalty and the schools should annually promote a number of such festivals.
Respecfully submitted,
ERNST HERMANN,
Director of Physical Education.
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SCHOOL NURSE.
To the Superintendent of Schools,
Ipswich, Mass.
Dear Sir :--
I respectfully submit the following report of this de-
partment for the year 1919:
School Visits
239
Home Visits
1126
Children taken to Dental Clinic
197
(120 children were actually taken, but some had extra visits.)
Children taken to Occulist 7
Assisted Dr. with Physical Examinations 911 Children weighed, measured and exam- ined by Nurse 987
Class Room Inspections
9600
Many Health Talks have been made.
Contagious Diseases:
Mumps 84
Scarlet Fever 18
Diphtheria
5
Pneumonia 2
Whooping Cough 2
Chicken Pox
18
Tonsil an Adenoid Op. 26
Appendicitis 4
Broken Arms
5
Respectfully submitted, MARTHA J. STEWART.
Miscellaneous:
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ATTENDANCE REPORT.
-
To the Superintendent of Schools,
Ipswich, Mass:
Dear Sir :---
I herewith submit the following report for the year ending December 31, 1919:
I have investigated such cases as were reported to me and found the pupils absent for the following reasons:
Sickness
118
Kept out by parents
Truants
47
Lack of clothing, shoes, etc.
34
Found on street and taken to school
29
Cases in court
3
Left town
8
Found at home and taken to school
23
335
Respectfully submitted, GEORGE W. TOZER, Attendance Officer.
HONORABLE MENTION.
Miss Annie P. Wade's school has the honor of having two pupils who have not been absent, tardy, nor dismissed for the entire year. There names are John Michon and Dorothy Will- comb. They may well be proud of their perfect attendance record.
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SCHOOL CALENDAR FOR
1920.
Term
Begins
Closes
Winter
January 5
February 27
Spring
March 8
April 30
Summer -
May 10
June 25
Fall
September 8
December 24
Teachers must report for duty on Tuesday, September 7, at 9 a.m., one day previous to the opening ot school for the fall term.
Holidays.
Every Saturday; Columbus Day, October 12; Wednesday Afternoon, Thursday and Friday of Thanksgiving Week; Jan- uary 1; February 22; April 19; Memorial Day; June 17; and Good Friday.
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No School Signals
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- OF -
The Ipswich Public Schools
4 blasts at 7.30-No MORNING SES- SION in any school.
4 blasts at 8.00-No MORNING SES- SION in the first five grades.
4 blasts at 11.00-No AFTERNOON SESSION in any school.
4 blasts at 11.30-No AFTERNOON SESSION in the first five grades.
In the absence of any signal at 11.00 or 11.30, the afternoon session will be held as usual. Teachers and pupils must be present at such sessions as on other days.
All should bear in mind that the 7.30 and 8.00 o'clock signals do not excuse for the entire day.
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VITAL STATISTICS.
We have taken these tables of vital statistics from copies furnished us by our Town Clerk, Mr. Charles W. Bamford. In every case persons born in any of the British Provinces, Ireland, Scotland or Wales have been excluded. It will be seen from the table that the number of foreign fathers has increased 100 per cent since 1912.
Births.
Year
Number
Foreign Fathers
Foreign Mothers
1912
159
57
59
1913
146
62
62
1914
144
75
75
1915
118
55
57
1916
168
99
100
1917
149
82
78
1918
182
109
107
1919
195
114
112
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Forty-Fifth Annual Commencement OF THE. .. . .
Manning High School, Class of 1919 THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 1919.
Program.
Invocation
Rev. William A. Wood
School Chorus "Rest in Peace"
Nevin
Salutatory Cora Henrietta Benedix A Stone to the House of Life
Essay Spencer Whitcomb King After the Whirlwind, the Still Small Voice
School Glee Club
"Shout Aloud in Triumph"
Manney
Class History
Georgia Eliza Reid
Valedictory
Edith Mable Spyut
Ad Astra Per Aspera
Address Dr. Kenneth C. M. Sills President Bowdoin College
Presentation of Diplomas Herbert W. Mason Chairman School Committee
School Chorus "When the Flag Goes By" Nevin
Benediction
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CLASS OF 1919.
CLASS OFFICERS.
Spencer Whitcomb King
Ethelinda Tucker
Georgia Eliza Reid
Samuel Francis Gordon
President Vice-President Secretary Treasurer
COLLEGE COURSE.
Lucy Burnham Sturgis
Ethelinda Tucker
William Emerson Tucker Clarice Madeline Davison
Myrtle Estelle Goditt Georgia Eliza Reid
SCIENTIFIC COURSE.
Chester Anthony Everett Douglas Jewett
Cleon Bancroft Johnson Spencer Whitcomb King
NORMAL COURSE.
Ellen Francis Margaret O'Brien Gladys May Brown
Thelma Damon Margaret Theresa Reilly
GENERAL COURSE.
Samuel Francis Gordon Austin Robinson Caverly
Althea Veronica Hayes Marion Elizabeth Phillips
COMMERCIAL COURSE.
George Herbert Mayes Lucy Lauriat Bailey
Bessie May Chapman Mildred Katherine Davis
Susie Maria Dewar Ada Emily Hobert Edith Mable Spyut
Elsie Elizabeth Jones
Cora Henrietta Benedix
Distribution of Pupils In the Ipswich Schools By Grades and Ages.
AGES
GRADE
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
TOTAL
1.
94
61
21
3
1
1
180
II.
7
74
39
18
11
1
1
2
1
1
1
2
1
159
III.
2
39
44
23
12
6
1
127
IV.
11
30
23
14
3
2
83
V.
4
18
33
27
28
15
5
1
1
1
133
VI.
3
10
21
30
18
10
2
94
VII.
13
28
22
13
3
3
82
VIII.
. 1
11
20
10
9
2
53
IX.
1
10
24
18
9
1
1
64
X.
12
11
12
4
39
XI.
2
10
6
11
2
1
32
XII.
3
3
13
4
3
26
101137
103
97
107
99
119
91
79
58
37
32
8
4 1072
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LIST of TEACHERS
- IN THE -
Ipswich Public Schools.
John P. Marston Ralph C. Whipple
Lois E. Mann Evelyn C. Silva Elizabeth C. Ferguson
Elizabeth M. Wood
Miriam F. Cushman
Helen M. Sanby
High School
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66
Katherine F. Sullivan
Winthrop 66
S. Isabelle Arthur L. Eva Stearns Emma Bell Leroy W. Jackman
Helen M. Anderson Mrs. William Fisher
Mabel V. Ladd
Eva A. Willcomb
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Hazel M. Weare Marion P. Webster Nellie Sullivan Lydia S. Harris
Burley
Ethel W. Archer Amy Stanford
Portable
Grace M. Bowlen Frances Trussel
Payne
L. Ardell Kimball
Dennison
Annie P. Wade
Elizabeth A. Caldwell
Cogswell
Mrs. Leslie Millard
Myrtle H. Cunningham
Candlewood
Mrs. Augusta Greenache
Wainwright
Ruth F. Joyce
Linebrook
Cora H. Jewett
Grape Island
Marion E. Brown
Domestic Science
Anna L. Nason
Drawing
Arthur H. Tozer
Music
Ernst Hermann
Physical Director
Joseph I. Horton
Superintendent
Auditor's Report.
To the Citizens of Ipswich:
I herewith submit the Annual Report of the Heard and Treadwell Funds as compiled from the books of the Treasurer of the Trustees. I have found receipts for all bills paid and I have examined the various Stocks and Bonds of which these funds are composed and have found them to agree with the reports submitted. There is no report of the Manning School and R. H. Manning Funds because, owing to the illness of the Treasurer of these funds, I have been unable to audit these accounts.
FREDERICK S. WITHAM,
Auditor.
February 11, 1920.
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Heard Fund of Ipswich Public Library.
-
Income:
Balance on hand January Ist, 1919
$ 305 29
Received from investments
2245 24
Received from Treadwell Fund
800 00
$3350 53.
Expenditures:
Salaries
$1058 69
Insurance and miscellaneous expenses
744 27
Balance on hand January 1, 1920
1547 57
$3350 53
· NOTE .- Expenditures cover a period of 13 months, as the report of last year ended December 1, while this year it in- cludes payments to January 1, 1920.
Securities Comprising Heard Fund.
33 shares B & L RR, preferred stock $5846 00
35 shares B & M RR 1470 00
10 shares Fitchburg RR, preferred stock 900 00
1 share C B & RR, 3 1-2 percent bond 945 00
1 United Electric & Power bond
950 00
3 Northern Pacific Great Northern 4 per cent bonds
2830 00
1 Aurora Elgin & Chicago bond
1000 00
3 Quincy Gas & Electric bonds 3000 00
1 Waterloo Cedar Falls & Northern bond 1000 00
Deposited in Ipswich Savings Bank 216 64
$18157 64
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Treadwell Fund.
Income: Cash on hand January 1, 1919 Received from investments
$ 110 28
2773 24
$2883 52
Expenditures:
Salaries
$ 50 00
Miscellaneous expenses
451 47
Transferred to Heard Fund
800 00
Balance paid on Liberty Bond
253 43
Balance on hand January 1, 1920
1328 62
$2883 52
Securities Comprising Treadwell Fund.
50 shares Fitchburg RR, preferred stock $4500 00
30 shares Old Colony RR, preferred stock 5215 00
25 shares B & P RR, preferred stock 6300 00
25 shares Me Central RR, preferred
3080 00
25 shares Vt & Mass RR, preferred stock
3460 00
25 shares B & A RR, preferred stock
3990 00
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1 City of Fostoria, Ohio, 4 per cent bond 530 00
| American Tel & Tel Co, 4 per cent bond 1000 00
1 Aurora Elgin & Chicago RR, 5 per cent bond 1000 00
1 Kansas Gas & Electric, 5 per cent bond 1000 00
1 Quincy Gas & Electric Heating, 5 per cent bond
950 00
1 Waterloo Cedar Falls & Northern bond
1000 00
1 Missouri Pacific RR bond
1000 00
2 Liberty Bonds 1000 00
Deposited in Ipswich Savings Bank
825 78
Deposited in Salem Savings Bank
750 00
$35600 78
Thomas H. Lord Fund.
I Liberty Bond Income from same
$1000 00
57 40
$1057 40
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Brown School Fund.
February 3, 1920.
The Trustees of the Brown School Fund present the follow- ing report for the year 1919:
The funds are as follows:
Deposited in Ipswich Savings Bank
$1386 48
Deposited in Salem Five Cents Savings Bank
1124 59
$2511 07
Income since last report:
Dividend from Ipswich Savings Bank
$54 80
Dividend from Salem Five Cents Savings Bank
49 80
$104 60
Expenditures for the year:
Paid in part, salary of Candlewood teacher, two months $90 00
Balance
$14 60
Respectfully submitted,
A STORY BROWN CHARLES G. BROWN BENJ. R. HORTON
Trustees
Ipswich, Mass., February 4, 1920.
I hereby certify that I have this day audited the receipts and expenditures of the Brown School Fund and find that the same are correct as shown by the above report. FREDERICK S. WITHAM, Auditor.
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Burley Education Fund.
The Trustees of the Burley Education Fund present here- with their ninety-fourth Annual Report:
The funds in their hands are as follows:
In Ipswich Savings Bank
$3387 33
Caldwell fund in Ipswich Savings Bank
1150 05
In Salem Savings Bank
1676 44
In Salem Five Cents Savings Bank
2070 03
Fifteen shares, common, B & M Railroad stock
540 00
Liberty bonds, second issue, converted 700 00
Liberty bond, fourth issue 1000 00
$10523 85
Income for the year 1919 has been as follows:
From Ipswich Savings Bank
$128 64
From Caldwell Fund
44 64
From Salem Savings Bank
41 27
From Salem Five Cents Savings Bank
90 07
From Liberty bonds, second issue
30 63
Erom Liberty bonds, fourth issue
41 45
From Town Note
28 00
$404 70
Expenditure has been thirty-six cents, incident to conver- sion of Liberty Bonds.
FRANK T. GOODHUE JOSEPH T. MORTON GEORGE W. TOZER JOHN W. NOURSE
Ipswich, Mass., January 16, 1920. I hereby certify that I have this day audited the receipts and expenditures of the Burley Education Fund and find that the same are correct as shown by the above report. FREDERICK S. WITHAM, Auditor.
IPSWICH SCHOOL REPORT.
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FEOFFEES OF THE GRAMMAR SCHOOL.
REPORT OF THE TREASURER.
1918 --- 1919.
Property in the hands of the Feoffees as follows:
Little Neck, valued at
$5000 00
Deposited in Ipswich Savings Bank
7974 90
Deposited in Ipswich Savings Bank (Essex School
Farm) 1681 58
Income and receipts since the last report as follow:
From land rent at Little Neck
$1720 00
Taxes from cottage owners, Little Neck
1172 25
From Ipswich Savings Bank
345 98
Interest on deposits, Ipswich Savings Bank
376 82
$3615 05
Disbursements:
Rees Jenkins, labor
$381 35
Joseph A Beaulieu, labor
164 66
J P Marston, salary
410 00
L A Peabody, labor
77 12
Canney Lumber Co., lumber
45 90
Joseph A King, repairs
16 79
Justin Hull, labor
6 00
Ipswich Chronicle, printing
2 00
C F Chapman & Son, barrel
5 25
Ipswich Mills, repairs
2 00
.
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Damon & Damon, insurance
$ 111 50
Envelopes 3 93
John W Goodhue, sundries
15 61
F F Byron
11 00
Town of Ipswich, taxes
1610 68
Town of Ipswich, water
10 88
Treasurer's salary
100 00
GH W Hayes, legal opinion
5 00
Ipswich Savings Bank, deposit
376 82
Income over expenses
258 56
$3615 05
Amount due for land rent at Little Neck
$912 00
Amount due for taxes from cottages owners
691 09
GEORGE E. FARLEY, Treasurer.
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Department of Medical Inspection and Hygiene.
Report of the School Physician.
To the Superintendent of Schools,
Ipswich, Mass.
Dear Sir :-
An intensive study of the problems with which this department has to deal has been carried on the past year. This study applied to our school system as a whole shows that much constructive work has been undertaken, and that along certain lines the results obtained are very gratifying.
But it must be admitted that there is much yet to be done before the children in our schools will attain that degree of bodily vigor so necessary as a basis upon which to build all that should be built upon their potential mentality.
A careful examination of 962 children showed 367 to bc under weight. A large proportion of these under-weights are shown to be under nourished, although they showed no evi- dence of organic disease. These were found to be 38.14 per cent. underweight, which is about the same percentage as was found among the young men examined for military service during the late war. Examinations in other places have re- vealed about the same condition, even Brookline where condi- tions of living are supposed to be of the best, furnishing a large percentage of underweights.
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