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Title: Health Work in the Public Schools

Author: Leonard P. Ayres and May Ayres

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CLEVELAND EDUCATION SURVEY

HEALTH WORK IN
THE PUBLIC
SCHOOLS

LEONARD P. AYRES
AND
MAY AYRES

[Illustration: CFS]

THE SURVEY COMMITTEE OF THE
CLEVELAND FOUNDATION
CLEVELAND . OHIO

1915

COPYRIGHT, 1915, BY

THE SURVEY COMMITTEE OF THE
CLEVELAND FOUNDATION

WM.F. FELL CO.PRINTERS
PHILADELPHIA

THE SURVEY COMMITTEE OF THE
CLEVELAND FOUNDATION

Charles E. Adams, Chairman
Thomas G. Fitzsimons
Myrta L. Jones
Bascom Little
Victor W. Sincere

Arthur D. Baldwin, Secretary
James R. Garfield, Counsel
Allen T. Burns, Director

THE EDUCATIONAL SURVEY
Leonard P. Ayres, Director

[Illustration: Team work between physician and nurse in Cleveland.]

FOREWORD

This report on "Health Work in the Public Schools" is one of the 25
sections of the report of the Educational Survey of Cleveland
conducted by the Survey Committee of the Cleveland Foundation in 1915.
Twenty-three of these sections will be published as separate
monographs. In addition there will be a larger volume giving a summary
of the findings and recommendations relating to the regular work of
the public schools, and a second similar volume giving the summary of
those sections relating to industrial education. Copies of all these
publications may be obtained from the Cleveland Foundation. They may
also be obtained from the Division of Education of the Russell Sage
Foundation, New York City. A complete list will be found in the back
of this volume, together with prices.

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