auses of round shoulders, and explain why
urging a round-shouldered child to hold himself erect is seldom enough
to make him correct his posture.

5. What measures should be taken to overcome nervousness in children?

6. Describe in detail the health work carried on in the public schools
of your city or town. Considering the important part played by
uncorrected physical defects in causing permanent physical disability
among adults, do you think in the long run it is cheaper or more
expensive for a community to spend money in protecting the health of
school children?

7. Discuss the particular needs of convalescent and of chronic patients.

8. Explain the effect of activity upon recovery, and explain why it is
desirable for invalids to have occupation.

9. What special needs should be provided for in caring for old people?

FOR FURTHER READING

Invalid Occupations--Tracy.

Occupation Therapy--Dunton.

Handicrafts for the Handicapped--Hall and Buck.

When Mother Lets Us Make Toys--Rich.

Amusements for Convalescent Children--New York State Department of
Health, Albany.

Essentials of Medicine--Emerson, Chapter IX.

Civics and Health--Allen.

How to Live--Fisher and Fisk, Chapter III, Section II; and Supplementary
Notes, Section III.

Health Work in the Schools--Hoag and Terman.

Medical Inspection of Schools--Gulick and Ayres.

The Hygiene of the Child--Terman.

Posture of School Children--Bancroft.

CHAPTER XV

QUESTIONS FOR REVIEW

I. Show how you would:

1. Make an unoccupied bed. (Notice the number of minutes it takes
you to do it well.)

2. Remove all the covers from an unoccupied bed and leave the bed to
air.

3. Open a bed to receive a patient.

II. Show how you would:

1. Change all the linen and remake an occupied bed. (How long did
it take you?)

2. Turn a patient from his back to his side, and the reverse.

3. Remove, shake, and readjust a patient's pillows.

4. Move a patient from one bed to another.

5. Prepare a weak patient to sit up in a chair, and assist him from
the bed to the chair.

6. Assist a weak patient from the chair to the bed.

7. Arrange pillows and back rest for a patient to sit up in bed; and
also how you would remove the pillows and back rest.

III. Show how you would:

1. Lift a patient who has slipped down toward the foot of the bed,
and show what y