TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE Foreword 5 List of Illustrations and Diagrams 9 The Argument for Medical Inspection 11 Health and School Progress 13 Examinations for Physical Defects 14 Objections to Medical Inspection 16 How the Work Started 18 The Present System 20 The School Nurse 21 Cleveland's Dispensaries 24 Dental Clinics 28 Eye Clinics 30 Co-operation of College for Barbers 32 The Medical Inspection Staff 32 The Plan of Concentrating Interests 34 Uniform Procedure 37 Vaccination 39 Future Development 43 Ten Types of Health Work 46 Health and Education and Business 48 Summary 54 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS FACING PAGE Team work between physician and nurse in Cleveland. _Frontispiece_ Tony's tonsils need attention 17 Either doctor or nurse visits every school every day 20 Cleveland's dispensaries are well equipped 25 The equipment of the Marion School dental clinic cost about $700 28 The eye clinic is advertised by its loving friends 31 Vaccinated children at Hodge School--50,000 more are unvaccinated 39 Shower baths installed in an old building in a crowded section 44 DIAGRAMS Number of children given physical examinations each year for five school years and number found to have physical defects 26 Per cent of physical defects corrected each year for five school years 36