Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 277, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1919 — RED CROSS REPORT. [ARTICLE]

RED CROSS REPORT.

Report of Barkley township rural schools, with 266 school children ex'amined for physical defects: I Only two schools had proper lighting and nearly all were either so dark or the cross-light made it impossible to make a test for refractive errors. Not a school would the curtains work and only a few schools would the windows open from the top. In two schools the children .had their own drinking cups. The major physical defects are as follows: Enlarged glands of the neck, 40; goitre, 6; nervous, 3; skin disease, 4; eye diseases, 5; । hearing and diseased ears, 14; permanent teeth, 92; tonsils not normal, 127; adenoids present, 28; [badly undernourished, 29. Parents, note that 35 per cent of the children i had bad teeth and don’t forget that ; good digestion and good health in I middle life depend on good teeth. — ' NETTIE B. JORDAN, American Red Cross Nurse for Jasper County.