Biennial Report of the State Board of Health and Vital Statistics of Minnesota

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Side 7 - STATE BOARD OF HEALTH, St. Paul, August, 1912. The State Board of Health and the Department of Public Instruction of Minnesota wish to lend their aid to the schools of the State in promoting health supervision of school children. To this end, the State Board of Health has engaged the services of Dr. Ernest B. Hoag, formerly of the University of California and at present on leave of absence from Stanford University, to help Minnesota towns and cities to organize health work in schools. Dr. Hoag will...
Side 2 - Sir: In accordance with the law which requires that the Minnesota State Board of Health "shall report its doings and discoveries to the legislature at each regular session thereof, with such recommendations as it shall deem useful," I herewith submit to you a report for the years covering 1011-1912.
Side 7 - Organization with a medical officer and nurse or nurses. (2) Organization with school nurse or nurses only. (3) Organization by the employment of a simple nonmedical health survey on the part of the teachers only. Such a survey is provided by a series of questions based upon ordinary observation of physical and mental conditions. The outline for this purpose will be furnished by the State Board of Health— one for each child. No community need wait for the employment of a medical officer in order...
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Side 295 - The conference adopted the following resolution: Whereas, The Conference of the State Boards of Health of the United States with the Public Health and Marine Hospital Service. having confidence in the earnest efforts and ability of the governor and State Board of Health of the State of California, acting in harmony with the Bureau of Public Health and Marine Hospital Service to thoroughly eradicate Bubonic plague heretofore existing in the city of San Francisco, do resolve...
Side 7 - ... various towns. He is kept constantly busy, and is doing the best and most systematic work I know of in this country. He allows each town to select one of three methods of doing the work. They are as follows: 1. Organization with a Medical officer and nurse or nurses. 2. Organization with school nurse only. 3. Organization by the employment of a simple non-medical health survey, on the part of the teacher only, such as I have just briefly described.
Side 242 - At the bedside of the second patient, the same inquiries in the same order are made. If this second patient be an imported case, or a secondary case, he also is merely noted for future reference. If he be a primary, however, the origins of his drinking water, milk, food, etc., during his infection period are also ascertained. Perhaps he coincides with the first patient in every detail of alimentary supplies, in history and associations. If so, nothing much has been added to the detective's knowledge....
Side 242 - He knows that the route indicated must be the guilty one for only that route can account for all the cases. He concentrates on that route until the evidence is complete — when and how that route became infected, when and by what sub-routes the infection was distributed, why it infected the patients found and not others, etc. In this illustration I have assumed complete ignorance on the part of the epidemiologist as to everything connected with the community he is investigating, except what he finds...
Side 7 - It is proposed to demonstrate to towns, cities and counties, that rational conservation of the mental and physical health of our school children is possible and practical with the means already at hand. Three plans will be proposed: (1) Organization with a medical officer and nurse or nurses.
Side 7 - The State Board of Health will maintain in its office in the Capitol building, St. Paul, a clearing house of information concerning child hygiene, medical supervision, the teaching of school hygiene, sex hygiene, and the like. Please make full use of the opportunities furnished in this new work. Your cooperation is earnestly desired.

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