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Title: Keeping the children well: medical inspection;
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Minneapolis Public Schools. Board of Education Keene, Charles Herbert, 1875- (from old catalog)
Subjects: School hygiene
Publisher: Minneapolis
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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bath and kitchen. The sec-ond school was opened in the Peabody building January 14, 1913,with an attendance of twenty-four pupils. Approximately thesame facilities were provided as at the George Bancroft. During the school year 1914-15 these classes were trans-ferred to the Thomas Arnold School, which was an eight-room,unoccupied building, with a fairly large school site. Classeshave been added gradually to the group until there are nowaccommodations for one hundred pupils. Children attending this school are selected from all over thecity because of tubercular tendencies. None of them has anopen, communicable case of tuberculosis. No case is contagiousnor, in the present stage, is any child a menace to any of itsneighbors. The session begins at 8:30 oclock in the morning,at which time the children are given a breakfast of oatmeal andmilk. A lunch is served in the middle of the forenoon, dinnerat noon and another lunch in the afternoon just before dismissal,which is at 3 :30. —27—
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— <u , i +J c 0 <U X _z <: +J O —o3 — — en $ O — CD V CJ n X 0 X — _z — H i J3 OPEN AIR SCHOOLS 29 The classrooms at the Thomas Arnold are provided withpivot-hung windows on two sides, the supply of fresh air beingmore plentiful where it is possible to have a room with windowson at least two sides. Each child has a rest hour in bed after the noon-day meal,and all the children that for any reason have a temperature orare not gaining in weight are required to rest for longer periods.All special subjects, except singing and physical education, aredropped from the curriculum of these children. Short periodsof rest and work alternate through the day, one class recitingwhile another class is resting, playing games, and so on. Under such conditions, the progress of these children hasbeen very satisfactory. Each year they have made an averagegain per pupil of from 3^ to \)/2 pounds. Last year t

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