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Title: Mother and child
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Whipple, Guy M. Provision for the education of gifted children in the United States American Child Health Association American Child Hygiene Association National Child Health Council (U.S.). Child health in Erie County, New York
Subjects: Child health services Child welfare Children Maternal health services Mothers Child Health Services Child Welfare Maternal Health Services
Publisher: Baltimore, Md. : American Child Hygiene Association
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
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room at the end of the truck,the nurse secures the family his-tory, an early record of each childunder seven (the truck aims toreach only children of pre-schoolage), weighs, measures and pre-pares it for examination. In theconference room the physician ex-amines the child, commends theparents for good work, but shows them also where the child fails tobe in the best possible condition. Arecord is given each mother, show-ing the condition of the child, withwritten suggestion for betterhygiene and urging the prompt at-tention of their physician for thecorrection of any defects found.Under no circumstances is a pre-scription or treatment given. Sickchildren are invariably rejected andreferred to a clinic or private phy-sician. The Special is wholly aneducational, not a clinical demon-stration. The county doctor is oftenthe first caller at the conference, with a retinue of small followers. In one town the Ford and driver of the village physician spent two days bringing in from the country,
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Is he physically fit? 30 FRANCES SAGE BRADLEY mothers and children who could nototherwise have come. Women of-ten contribute cars for the samepurpose. Teachers are equally interested,eagerly excusing their six-year-oldsfor examination. One teacherurged the county superintendent toseek a special arrangement where-by her older children might be ex-amined. The graduating class of anormal college asked to be shownin small groups how to recognizeadenoid faces, enlarged tonsils, theeruption and care of teeth, andtangible points in the nutrition ofchildren. Several of them decidedto urge upon parents a thoroughexamination and a clean bill ofhealth before entering children inschool. The interest of children is askeen as that of the grown-ups.They listen attentively to words ofremonstrance and advice. One lit-tle Bobbie returned to the truck sooften that parental restraint wasnecessary to curb his enthusiasm. Another youngster slipped roundbehind the Special and separatedhimself from a baby to

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