Health Essentials for Rural School Children (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

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Excerpt from Health Essentials for Rural School Children

The first pamphlet report of this joint Committee is entitled "Minimum Health Requirements for Rural Schools." Seven hundred and fifty thousand copies of that eight page report have been printed, through the generosity of the Elizabeth McCormick Memorial Fund of Chicago, and most of these have been distributed throughout the country by the United States Bureau of Education. A second edition of that report has been printed and copies may be obtained at cost of printing from the Chairman of the Committee.

The first report deals mostly with the health problems of the rural school - the sanitary surroundings of the school child in the country. Minimum sanitary requirements for rural schools are proposed in that report for the purpose of helping to establish a standard of fundamental health essentials in the rural school and its material equipment, so that attainment of this minimum standard may be demanded by public opinion and by educational authorities of every school in the country.

Conformity to the minimum sanitary requirements should be absolutely necessary to the pride and self respect of the community; and to the sanction and approval of county, state, and other supervising and interested official or social agencies.

Neglect of anything essential for health, in construction, equipment and care of the rural school plant is at least an educational sin of omission and may reasonably be considered a social and civic crime or misdemeanor.

The country schoolhouse should be as sanitary and wholesome in all essential conditions as the best home in the community. Further, it should be pleasing and attractive in appearance, in furnishings and in surroundings, so that the community as a whole may be proud of it; so that the pupils and teacher may take pleasure in attending school and in caring for and improving it.

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