Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 168, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1911 — Manual Is Ready For The State Printer. [ARTICLE]

Manual Is Ready For The State Printer.

A manual of Instructions to teachers. county superintendents, school boards, and other school officials, Is ready to go to the state printer from the office of the state board of health. It is perhaps the most ambitious attempt at an intelligent review of the school Inspection question that has ever been made by a state board of. health. The state board of education, empowered jointly with the state board of health by the recertt Indiana general assembly to begin the work of education on school inspection questions among the teachers of the state, ratified the primary work on the manual done by the state board of health, and the latter board practically has supervised the remainder of the work When the manual leaves the printer within the next few weeks copies wi’h be sent to practically every teacher, superintendent, principal and school commissioner in Indiana. It will touch on all phases of school hygiene laws existing in Indiana, and in addition wiil contain Instructions to teachers concerning examination of children. -

Among the subjects treated in the manual will be arguments, for medical inspection, the school inspection law passed at the last Indiana general assembly, an argument for sanitary school houses and the sanitary school house law, rules for quarantine and exclusion from school, directions for disinfection of school rooms, rules for the school inspectors, rules for teachers, rules for testing hearing and blank forms for the keeping of inspection records.

The latter instructions are to be given with a view of providing statistical information from all Indiana schools, wherein medical inspection is established, in uniform returns to the state board of health. From these returns information will be acquired, according to state health officers, which may be used in replying to numerous inquiries being received daily by the state board of health from other states in regard to medical inspection of school children. Information is sought by teachers and other persons throughout the state concerning the existing laws on school inspection and hygiene in In-: diana, and the contemplated manual will be designed to answer the majority of these questions, according to members of the office force under Dr. J. N. Hurty, secretary of the state board of health. ~ The medical inspection law made the state board of education responsible for the formulation of rules for medical inspection of chjjdren. The rules were to be formulated jointly by both state boards. After an investigation of the work being done by Dr. Hurty, the state board of education allowed the other board to take ub the burden of compiling the manual.