Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 299, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1919 — RED CROSS NOTES. [ARTICLE]

RED CROSS NOTES.

Attention to mothers and teachers of rural school children: Many children of Jasper county are below standard in size and nutrition. In some the cause is due to bpd teeth and poor mastication. Food cannot be digested unless it is reduced to a fine subdivision. The cold noonday lunch may be made more palatable if the teacher and eighth grade pupils co-operate in making a hot drink at school such as hot milk or cocoa, but preferably a soup of some kind. . Children should not drink tea or coffee at ■ all. I In visiting the schools, there are two to five children absent, due in .nearly every case ! to some disease ' caused by a bad throat or imperfect t digestion. . ■ . The correction in the error in diet is the duty of the mothers, and the correction of physical defects- Should be referred to the family physician, j The report of Union township, with 239 school children examined , for defects of throat, teeth land nutrition, is as follows: Enlarged glands of the neck, due to infection of some kind, ISO, Goitre, 5." '* < Defective ears,- 14. Children with defective teeth, 88. Tonsils not normal, 151 . Mouth breathers with adenoids apparent, 25. - Malnutrition, 16. More frequent baths, more water drank between meals, food chewed better and dry feet wjll help a lot toward children being able to go to school every day. [ I NETTIE B. JORDAN, .... , Jasper Co. Red Cross Nurse.