Evening Star Newspaper, July 6, 1924, Page 6

D. C. SCHOOL HEALTH ORK HAS LAGGED Tuberculosis Association in Resoiutions Asks for Improvement. OTHER CITIES COMPARED Provision for More Physicians and Nurses in 1925 Budget Here Is Proposed. re the people of Washington wil- ling to remain silent and passive while their city Jags far behind in the procession of American cities as to the vital matter of public health services, due to inadequate appropria- tions This in substance now belng brought to the attention of the responsible authorities of Washington and, fndirectly, to the business and professional leaders of the city by the Washington Tuber- culosis Association in support of Its specific suggesstion that provision be made in the 1 budget estimates for more school physicians and nurse The board of directors of this as- sociation, at its last regular meet- ing, unanimously adopted resolutions calling on the health officer of the city, on the board of education and on the District Commissioners them- selves to include in their next year's estimates the following provision: or such an increased number of school physicians and nurses as will make possible the thorough physical examination of all childrer: when first admitted to the public schools and an annual physical examination of all school children up to their tenth year, with such subsequent periodic ex nationg as may be found necessar: also that provision be made for fol- lowing up all discovered remediable physical defects in such manner as to secure their correction at the earliest possible moment.” Preparing Report. In order to place before the public the actual position of this city compared with other citles of its class and with the gencral average as to school health supervision and other health services, Surgeon Gen- cral Cumming of the United States public heaith service was asked to make a statement for publication. Dr. Cumming said that this federal health organization was right now engaged in gathering data for a comprehen- sive report on this very subject by request of the National Tuberculosis Association, the National Health Council, the American Child Health Association and several other groups But at this time, he said, the latest comparative figures on the sub- ject of city health service are con- tained in the 1923 “report of the com- mittee on municipal health depart- ment practice” of the American Pub- lic Health Association, in -co-opera- tion with the United States public health servi Most of these figures refer to conditions in 1920. “In the one matter of school health supervision,” said Dr. Cumming, “this report dealt with fifty-nine cities, in thirty-seven of which the board of education has all or some part of the direction of this work. Taking the average for the cities thus cov- ered, it appears that the cost of health ‘supervision per pupil for an enrollment of nearly 4,000,000 is 62 cents a year. However, for the group of cities between 250,000 and 500,000 population, near the top of which Washington is found. the average cost per pupil is 79 cents. Turning now to the special report on Washington, it is found that here the cost of school health supervision is only 54 cents per pupil per year. That means that Washington is 25 cents per pupil behind the average 1. ties of its class. ow, as to the comparative ratio of medical inspectors, dental workers and nurses, there is wide variation in different cities. In cities where medi- cal inspectors are employed on full time there is no proper comparison with cities where similar numbers are on part time. In the cities of 250,000 to 500,000 population the aver- age number of nurses per 10,000 pupils is 3.23, while the number in Washington is 1.61, or, as the report says, ‘less than any other city of this group except New Orleans and Port- land, Ore.' Ideal Number. “The ideal number of school medi- eal inspectors, according to this re- would be the provision of suffi- personnel to allow one doctor for every 3.000 children and one nurse for every 2,000 pupils. The nurses should be so far relieved of routine clerical work as to have time for follow-up work in the homes of the children. “l am informed that school enroliment for something over 69,000. With twelve medical inspectors employed part time this would make slightly over 5,700 pupils per inspector. With ten nurses employed this gives us 6.900 pupils per nurse. The compariosn is obvious. ‘Physical examinations of all pu- pils upon admission to school are made in fifty-one cities, but in only thirty-elght cities is this a general medical examination. Only in the past year has Washington made a start toward this goal by providing for the examination of pupils enter- ing the first grades. No city so far has provided a staft of inspectors sufficient to give all pupils a thor- ough examination each year. New York, Chicago, San Francisco .and Cleveland have examinations every other year and three times in the school life of the pupil. In Baltimore they have examinations in the first and fourth grades.” All the medical experts now agree that the most effective way known for an individual to escape tubercu- Jous infection is to build up and main- tain the best possible general bodily tone and strength. Consequently the importance of looking after the gen- eral health of the great mass of chil- dren as they pass through their school is the question the present this_city is years can hardly be overestimated. Ocean Has Greatest Area. A student with a mathematical mind has figured out that If the land comprising the earth’'s surface could be put tomether into one unbroken mrea the surface would not cover as much_space as the Pacific Ocean. It has also been figured out that deserts cover about 24 pek cent of the land surface of the earth. — Store Management in Schools. The University of West Virginia has inaugurated a course in store management in its curriculum. Mer- chants have been invited to take the work, and 15,000 announcements have been sent out to merchants with in- vitations to register, if not their executives, some of their responsible clerks. Two of a Kind. From Jutge. : There are two types of people who will® tell gau thers are better places o be in than wnere you are—preach- ers and real estate agents. —— i Poor Judgment. “~em the Boston Tramscript. She—Don’t you think that a man forfeits his self-respect by taking a tip? 'n.—w.l I never take one on th gnarket that does not cause me Judgment, . Aose respect fog my. FOLKS Mrs. ' Coolidge, like her husband, hasx many close and congenial friends who belong to the opposing political faith, friendships formed when she was a neweomer in official life and turned to those who seemed most sympathetic and helptul. One of the younger sena- torial women with whom Mrs. Cool- idge was asso- clated at this formative _period was Mrs. Willlam J. Harris, wife of the senator from Georgla, and this lady frequently is a visitor at the White House in the pleasant, in- formal way permitted only to the few. Mre. Harris is almost a Wash- ingtonian, %o long has she lived here and so prominently has she always been identified with its offictal life. The duughter of the late Gen. Jo- seph Wheeler of Alabama, she was of ‘the group of vounger belles in the last Cleveland administration when Alabamans nacurally rallled in the home of Hilary A. Herbert, Secre- tary of the Navy. Gen. and Mrs. Jo-eph Wheeler were leaders of the southern congressional set and after her mothers death, soon after her debut, Miss Wheeler assumed charge of her father's house- hold. At this time, the present sena- tor from Georgia was secretary to his predecessor. Senator Alexander S. Miss Julla Wheeler, besides Qaay; woclal obligations, had me of her father's clerical % and 50 the two often met In terence. The result was the happy r -nance, which mellows with the ] ~«ng vears. Senator and Mrs Larris live in Cedartown, Ga., but like o many other congressional tamilies, they are kept in Washing- ton three-fourths of the time, or throughout the school year. This summer Mrs. Harris has remained in the apartment on 16th street after the cthers had departed, first for the New York convention and then for the home in Georgia. She has many times visited the mistress of the White House, as both have several philanthropic’ projects in which they are interested, and many odds and ends to discuss in the leisure of sum- mer. and which is impossible in the rush of the season. THIEVES FOIL SNAKES. Steal Bronze Figure From Midst of Reptiles. HAMBUR July 5.—The largest bronze snake in Germany, which oc- cupied u prominent place in Carl Hagenbeck's animal farm, near Ham- burg, was stolen recently by thieves, who, the police sald, would probably sell the statue for old metal. The bronze snake stood on a pedestal in the center of the snake yard, which is a kind of jungle, so that the in- habitants might be reminded of their native haunts and feel perfectly at home. The management believed that the snakes were better than watchdogs to guard this valuable piece of statu- y, but the thieves apparently had no fear of the thousands of reptiles within the inclosure and escaped with their loot without anything more than being hissed at. Mrs. W. T. Harris. xK »* ) o ) o ) o ) o ) = ) o * ) o ) o of ) o ) o ) o ) o ;‘: ) o ) o ) o ) o TR B e 14 POINTS TO BE STUDIED ‘Wilson SEERESS HIT TRUTH. German Woman Claims Knowledge of 1924-27 Events. MUNICH. July 5.—Elsbeth Ebertin claims to know what is destined to | happen in Germany in 1924-1927. Her prediction for this spring, made in February. included failure of banks, Program to Be Part ef’ Sofla College Course. ! SOFIA. July 5.—A chair for the study and explanation of the late ex- President Wilson's fourteen points will be established this fall by the Free University of Sofia. Special at- tention will be given to the eleventh | the death of sveral “very rich per- point. which deals with the freedom | gsonalties belonging to the financial of minorities and self-determination. | world,” and the revelation of fraud These lectures are to be delivered atl on a large scale the special request of Dimitr Ikonom- | Th. deaths of Stinnes and Helffe- off. who has given 500,000 levas to|rich and the failure of the Neufville the Academy of Sclences 0 endow | pank are pointed to by Frau Eber- the chair. o~ tin’s friends as evidence of her ability AT | to foresce the future Suddenly Rich—Dies. By the Autoclsted Prate Maid and Queen Collaborated. Carmen Sylva, the pen name of DUBLIN, July 5.—William Browne, the Dublin cabman, who recently | Queen Maria of Rumania, who died in 1915, collaborated in her writing found that he was heir to an estate | estimated at nearly $500,000, survived a great deal with one of her maids of honor, whose name was Mite his fortune by less than a fortnight Browne had driven his cab through Kremnitz. Queen Maria was the wife of King Carol I, and she wrote with Dublin for more than fifty years, and continued driving it while the estate facility in either English French, Ger- man or Rumanian, was being administered. He fell ill and died in a private hospital You'll Appreciate Books Kept on Candidates. When three newly elected French deputies died from the effects of their | | strenuous campaign ph 1 cul-| ture expert, Marcel de Larbe in Paris made an estimate of their activities | during the campaign to see whether | the cause as ascribed was logical. He | found that on an average the politie aspirants covered 630 mil made 60 | speeches and slept only 120 hou: 0-da campaign. His figure: compiled from a study of t | victims as well as from deta Ivided by others who did not cumb suc- Swamps Put to New Use. Furs have popular_in America that a new industry has rung up in swampy districts. Musk- farming, for years carried on as a pastime only, now is a thriving in- dustry in some sections of the United States. It is found that captive musk- rats become tame easily though they are prey for many enemies. They re- quire no feedings as they live on the vegetation of marshes "and ponds. Twenty yvears ago the muskrat was | considered a pest. 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Forgetting that she had v'rmo\rd: the cover from the coid air shaft of | the furnace while cleaning house Henry Hayner of Delhi, N. Y., walked into it and became lod she could not extricate She wax forced to her cramped position about hour until a physician of the neigh- borhood, cadiing o an crrand, heard her cries when no one came in answer | to the doorbell. Mrs. Hayner when | released from her prison had to use | rutche | self. Hotel Being Built in Clouds. | On top of Jungfraupoch, in tz- | erland, a hotel is being built at an The work- elements that ay those have to would ordina warmer clime ished will literall clouds frequently A Thrifty Fisherman. From Judge. Excited Son—Ye've hooked a one this time, father. otch Angler—Oh, aye! richt, but I'll 'feel big The feesh mighty re- ieved when 1 get that half-a-crown | ott o' his mouth! 1 0.9.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.0.8.0.0.6, CARRIAGES HAVE HORNS. Give Belgrade Appearance of Bustling, Modern City. By the Associated Press BELGRADE, July 5—On all horse open carriages whic the place of taxicabs, automobile horns have replaced the shrill vell of the driver as he tears through the streets, and all because of a young Amerjcan He came here to tomobile agency an stock of horns. Sometime later, curiously enough, the city authori: ties passed an ordinance compelling horse vehicles to be equipped with these signals. The American is happy and So is the populace, because the constant shriek of the horns gives the city an appearance, or rather sound, of bustling modernity. e Bottle Separates Cream and Milk. Although milk is probably the old- est food product ‘of the world, it was not until within the last twelv months that a milk bottle that sep- arates cream and milk handily was invented. A new England Yankee is responsible. The bottle is shaped like a lamp chimney and the cream is allowed to rise through a small neck from the bottle proper, and a ladel-like tongue may be inserted so as to lodge in the neck and allow for pouring off of cream without mixing it with milk. ake over an au- found an over- 1,000 New We want to enroll 1,000 during the month of July. two- | here take | TOOTHBRUSH MUSTACHE:~ DECREED FOR GERMANS Monocles and Horn Spectacles,Ard Banished and Four-in-Hand .’ Ties Are Exposed. By the Associated Pre BERLIN, July 5.—Fashion's ded for German men this summer cop- derns the smooth shaven face-so much in vogue since the war, when upturned kaiser moustaches went out. Now the Berliner of mode must w, the little military toothbrush bunch of hair on his upper lip, and, also abandon the monocle. With the single eyeglass the horn-rimmed spec- tacic is banned, and gentlemen are supposed 1o wear the. conventional and unobstrusive gold or rimless Rlasses. They also are warned to wear four- in-hand ties fully exposed and not to tuck them in between the second and third shirt buttons as of old. The colored silk handkerchief is tabon and white linen is required. But with these conformities to the con- servative fashions of the west, comes a vogue among the ultra set for high- heeled shoes of the old Cuban style. L i A book published in Japan more than 1000 years ago notes that at | that time good silk was already pro- | duced in twenty-five provinces of that country. Customers! new customers on our books We have made our prices so low, our terms so liberal and easy to pay, that we should not have any real trouble in filling that quota. We men- tion here only a few of the hundreds of bargains we have in substantial furniture. floors of furniture values. 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