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Excerpt from Detroit Medical Journal, Vol. 5: A Practitioner's Monthly; July, 1905 Medical inspection of schools in the United States has been slow of adoption and limited in its application. The diffusion of authority in municipal government, the occasional unfortunate introduction of partisan politics into educational administration, the democratic relue tance to the endurance of parental measures of restraint, all have had their influence to delay the general adoption of medical supervision of school children. Again, only in the last few years has the density of urban population increased to the extent that the necessity of medical control of the aggregations of children in the common schools became apparent. Boston introduced the first system of medical inspection of schools in 1894. New York followed in 1897. To assure themselves of the value and necessity of a system of inspection, the boards of health of New York and Boston conducted a series of preliminary investigations. To the members of this Society familiar with the modes of transmission of the infectious diseases, it' is unnecessary to detail these investigations. They were made to assure administrative. And legislative bodies and to demonstrate to them facts of common medical knowledge. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.