The Physician and School Medical Services
- 27 February 1947
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 236 (9) , 305-310
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm194702272360901
Abstract
THE participation of the United States in war brings, as an almost inevitable aftermath, a wave of popular interest in the health of the school child. After the Civil War, California passed legislation requiring the promotion of physical activities in all schools, and after World War I, many states enacted laws pertaining to medical examinations as well as to physical education. Today, stimulated by the Selective Service findings, a strong current of public interest has set in. No less than ten bills relating to school health were introduced in the Seventy-ninth Congress.Considerable public money is now being spent on . . .Keywords
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