Recent developments in child study show that many of the moral and mental obliquities of children may be traced to physical defects.
Medical inspection includes four fields of endeavor: prevention of epidemics, discovery and cure of physical defects, provision of healthful surroundings, and formation of correct habits of thought and action in regard to health.
Sanford, and other members of the medical profession volunteered their services as school physicians, to detect not only cases of possible contagion, but also the existence of physical defects.
Cases of dental defectiveness are frequently greater in number than are all other sorts of physical defects combined.
The statistical studies of physical defects in the schools reveal almost universally a positive relationship between school retardation and possession of adenoids and diseased tonsils.
Harmful conditions within schoolrooms and on school grounds will not be neglected where pupils, teachers, school and family physicians, and parents set about to find and to remove the causes of physical defects.
And the long catalog of physical defects--what shall be said of them?
We all admit that the medical examinations for the war found too many physical defects, and too many men thereby incapacitated for efficient military service.
Physical defects on the part of the children I named as the second cause of retardation.
Pupils who lag behind their mates in their studies are often suffering from physical defects of which their teachers, and even they themselves, may be unaware.
Then there are those who are incapable of productive work because of physical defects, or through the feebleness of old age.
The wide prevalence of physical defects disclosed in the effort to raise an army during the recent war will doubtless cause still greater emphasis to be placed on this aspect of education.
The Effect of Physical Defects on School Progress," Psychological Clinic, 3:71.
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