Excerpt from Public Education, Pennsylvania, Vol. 7: Monthly Bulletin; April, 1940

In the January issue of public education, occasion was taken to emphasize four general phases of safety education namely, prevention of traffic accidents; prevention Of seasonal accidents; prevention of school and home accidents; and prevention and correction Of ill health and disease.

While each type of hazard may be fraught with fatal consequences, I desire at this time to emphasize the preven tion and correction of ill health and disease since such service offers the possibility of an effective control, and generally requires a longer period for attention and treatment, and thus constitutes a continuous responsibility of public education.

Of the two-fold implication of health education, its preventive aspects, from a long - range viewpoint, are equally as important, or even more significant, than its corrective aspects. Nevertheless, in points of immediacy and susceptibility, correction of defects, at this time at least, would seem to have first call upon our attention and effort.

Obviously, any plan for corrective health education must be based! Upon the findings disclosed by our program of medical inspection. In this connection great credit is due the Officials of the State Department of Health, who have assumed the entire responsibility for the health examination of all Children in fourth class districts, and who have, against great odds, already established an effective state - wide program of medical inspection reaching hundreds of thou sands Of these children. While the latest complete summary of health figures available are for the school year 1937 1938, a brief review Of these data in comparison with our school enrolment for 1937-1938, will serve to direct our attention to those aspects of the problem clearly indicated by our medical inspection reports.

One hesitates to impose detailed figures upon another. I propose, however, to take at least one good, long look at what is apparent as to the health of our school Children. For our purpose, the end seems to justify the means.

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