to all students. (Optional.)
(_d_) Medical examination of Athletes.
Required of all students before admission to athletic training and
repeated at intervals during the training season.
(_e_) Treatment.
Emergency treatment is the only treatment attempted by the Department.
Such treatment will be applied only for the purpose of protecting the
individual until he can secure the services he selects for that purpose.
(_f_) Conferences.
(See "c" under I.)
(_g_) Laboratory: The Department Laboratories are equipped for
bacteriological and other analyses. The water in the swimming pool is
examined daily. The laboratory service is utilized to identify disease
carriers, and in every other reasonable way to assist in the protection
of student health.
DIVISION OF RECREATIONAL INSTRUCTION
Liberal provision is made by the College for voluntary recreational
activities indoors and outdoors during six days of the week and
throughout vacation periods. Emphasis is laid on recreation as a
health habit and a means of social training.
DIVISION OF ATHLETICS
(1) _Athletic Supervision._
Three organizations are concerned:
(_a_) The Faculty Athletic Committee, which has to do with all
athletic activities that involve academic relationships.
(_b_) The Athletic Council, a committee of the Department of Hygiene,
charged with the supervision of all business activities connected with
student athletic enterprises.
(_c_) The Athletic Association of the Student Body.
(2) _Athletic Instruction._
The Department utilizes various intramural and extramural athletic
activities for the purpose of securing a further influence on the
promotion of health habits, the development of physical power, and the
establishment and maintenance of high standards of sportsmanly conduct
on part of the individual and the group.
At present the schedule includes the following sports: baseball,
basket ball, track and field, swimming and water polo, tennis, soccer
foot ball, and hand ball.
THOMAS ANDREW STOREY, M.D.
_College of the City of New York_
[It was hoped that it would be possible to include with Professor
Storey's chapter a number of forms and photographs calculated to serve
as aids in the organization and conduct of a College Department of
Hygiene. As Professor Storey's work is very distinctive, other
insti
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