DEPARTMENTS OF HYGIENE UNDER BOARDS OF EDUCATION

In the modern scientific business life the technical business expert has a permanent place. The erection of a city structure involves the cooperation of engineering and architectural experts as never before. Electric and mining work involves groups of experts, each connected with some special phase of the subject. School boards have had new problems thrust on them, and the employment of business agents and building experts has become indispensable. It is my belief that the group of problems centering about the health of school children demands technical treatment as highly specialized as that required for other departments. A few statements of fact will bring out the necessity of the measure here advocated. On good eyesight depends to a large degree one's ability to conduct successfully the affairs of life. Notwithstanding the great damage or degeneration that the vision of American school children is constantly undergoing, there is hardly a school