school, to be kept up to date by teacher.

V. CITY MACHINERY

1. A division to be known as the Department of School Hygiene,
headed by an officer who gives his entire time to that department.

2. A subcommittee of the Board of Education.

3. Clearing house for facts regarding school hygiene taught and
practiced in all schools within city limits.

4. Specialists to examine applicants for teaching positions, and
to reexamine teachers to determine fitness for continuance, for
promotion, and for special assignments.

5. A bureau for inspection and control of all hygiene of school
buildings, old and new, with power to compel repairs or to reject
plans that do not make adequate sanitary provision.

6. Similar supervision of curriculum and of study hours
prescribed.

7. A bureau for the inspection and control of curriculum, required
home study, exercise, physical training, etc., so far as relates
to the health of pupils, and to the physical ability of children
to be in certain grades or to be promoted. This will decide the
duration of lessons, frequency of intermissions, sequence of
subjects, time and method of recess throughout the various grades.

8. Supervision of indoor and outdoor playgrounds, roof gardens,
indoor and outdoor gymnasiums, swimming pools, etc.

9. Supervision of instruction in school hygiene.

10. A staff of inspectors for communicable diseases of pupils and
teachers, to be subject to the board of education or the board of
health.

11. A staff of examiners adequate to examine all children and
teachers at least once a year for defects of eye, ear, teeth,
nose, throat, lungs, spine, bones, glands, etc., and for weight
and height to be under the control of the board of education or
the board of health. The expense would not be as great as the
penalty paid for omitting such examination.

12. A staff of nurses to assist medical examiners to give children
practical demonstrations in cleanliness, to teach mothers the care
of children both at their homes and in mothers' meetings, to
enlist the cooeperation of family physician and neighborhood
facilities, such as hospitals, dispensaries and relief agencies,
magistrates' courts and probation officers,--all to be under the
control of the board of education or the board of health.

Whether inspectors, examiners, and nurses shall be directed by the
board of education or the