The doctor in the schools : being notes on the medical inspection of public elementary school children under the Education (Administrative Provisions) Act, 1907 / by Hackworth Stuart.

  • Stuart, Hackworth, -1909.
Date:
1908
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Credit: The doctor in the schools : being notes on the medical inspection of public elementary school children under the Education (Administrative Provisions) Act, 1907 / by Hackworth Stuart. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    slight a cause, or are troubled with habitual cough, or are weak and frail and pale, or have any deformity (such as bow leg, knock knee, club foot, flat foot, hip disease, curved spine), or are subject to faints or twitchings or fits, should consult their doctor without delay, as special precautions may be needed about games and other exercises, clothing or food. (6) RINGWORM, SORE HEAD, HEAD-LICE, SCABBY FACE, ITCH. It is very important to prevent children from com- municating their ailments to one another. Head-lice and nits are exceedingly common in children. Boys’ heads are best kept closely cropped. To destroy lice and nits, the hair should be kept wet with paraffin for several hours and then washed with soap and water; the same should be done next day and the day after, care being always taken not to bring a naked light near the paraffin; then the hair should be combed daily with a very fine comb, soaked in vinegar till no more nits can be found. Children should not exchange caps. Ringworm often takes months to cure ; children, with doctor’s permission and under proper treatment, may mix with other children and even attend school if they continually wear some kind of cap until certified as cured. Parents, whose children suffer from ringworm, scabby sores (crusts) on the head or face, itching spots on the hands or wrists, or any complaint that might possibly be communicable to another child, should consult their doctor at once, as most of these complaints are much more easily cured in the early stage. This Card should not be Lost or Destroyed.