advanced.

"The third reason is concerned with irremediable physical defects. The
cripples, the deformed and the delinquents whose incapacitating defects are
permanent should be found and classified. This enables special instruction
and opens up educational possibilities otherwise unattainable, besides
removing retarding factors in the progress of the normal pupil.

"The fourth reason is concerned with the development of hygienic habits in
the school child, and through the child, of the community. Medical
inspection which influences the health habits of the masses is a matter of
supreme importance. The teacher will have pupils of cleaner habits and
healthier, with fewer interruptions and disturbances from absences.

"To make medical inspection successful physical examinations should uncover
the anatomic, physiologic, and hygienic conditions. Every piece of advice
given to a pupil that can be followed up should be followed up and the
result recorded. No system of medical inspection in schools can be complete
and permanently successful which does not eventually educate the parent and
child to a sympathetic and cooeperative relationship with the system.
Medical inspection is a force working for a better general education in
personal hygiene and should cooerdinate with the class room instruction.
Hence it must be a system in sympathetic relationship with the general [27]
management of the school, and should be under the same responsible control.
Since it is an educational influence and so directly related to the success
of the school, it ought to be a part of the school organization."

A paper was read by Dr. Helen C. Putnam of Providence, R. I., on "The
Teaching of Hygiene for Better Parentage." She said:

"Life is a trust from fathers and mothers beginning before history; to be
guarded and bettered in one's turn, and passed along to children's
children. A definite conception of this trust is essential to right living.
Educators are finding that well directed correlation of human life, with
phenomena of growing things in school gardens and nature studies, develops
a wholesome mental attitude. Since tens of millions of our population have
only fractions of primary schooling, there is where the teaching must
begin. These primary years are the time to lay foundations before a wrong
bias is established.

"Education for parenthood cannot be completed at this early age. The
strategic years for making it most effective are fr