The Health bulletin [serial] - University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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6 The Health Bulletin September, 1927
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS FOR TEACHERS AND PUPILS
Teacher : What is the most important
requisite for satisfactory progress in
school
Class : Brains and industry.
Teacher : What is the second most
important requisite
Class : Good health.
Teacher : How does average attendance
compare with total enrollment
every year in the State schools
Class : More than 20 per cent under.
Teacher: Why the discrepancy
Class : Chiefly because of loss of
time on account of preventable sickness.
Teacher : What are some of the
effects of such loss of time
Class : Several thousand boys and
girls have to repeat the grades. That
sets them back and discourages them
besides it costs the taxpayers a great
deal more money to run the schools.
The families also suffer and many children
die as a result of diseases spread
in school.
Teacher : What are the diseases
called that cause so much trouble in the
schools
Class : Communicable diseases, that
is, catching disease.
Teacher : What are the most common
communicable diseases
Class : Measles, whooping cough,
chicken pox, diphtheria, septic sore
throat, smallpox, scarlet fever, and
respiratory infections commonly called
"colds."
Teacher : Which of these diseases
may be prevented
Class: Smallpox and diphtheria.
Teacher: How
Class : By vaccination.
Teacher : Is the vaccination dangerous
Class: No.
Teacher: Why do such diseases
spread so rapidly when a pupil catches
one of them
Class : Because the children come
into close contact with each other. They
use the same drinking cups sometimes.
Often they swap pencils, biting the
ends, and even swap chewing gum and
bite each others apples. They sit close
together and breathe in each others
faces. When one coughs or sneezes the
spray flies through the room. Often
the room is too hot and the ventilation
is bad. All such helps the contagion
get into the nose or mouth of all the
boys and girls in the room.
Teacher : About how hot should the
temperature of a school room be kept
Class: Between 66° and 68°.
Teacher : What is the best method of
ventilation for an avei-age school room
Class : Admission of fresh air at the
top of window and using a deflecting
board to direct the current of cold air
toward the ceiling.
Teacher : When is best time to sweep
and clean the school room
Class : After school closes for the
day. The room should be thoroughly
swept and all dust rubbed off the furniture
with a damp cloth.
Teacher : What is the duty of the
teacher when a child appears sick, especially
when it coughs or sneezes and
appears to have a sore throat, running
nose and so on
Class : To send the child home with
a request to the parent to keep such
child at home and away from other
children until thoroughly well ; and if
the child does not get better rapidly
to send for the family physician.
Teacher : If a child in a school develops
one of the diseases called communicable
such as measles what should
the child's parents do about it after
sending for the doctor
Class: They should stop it from
school and notify the teacher at once
about what the trouble is so the teacher
can warn the parents of the other children.
Teacher : When a disease like measles
begins to spread in a school should the
school be closed
Class : No. Unless the local health
department thinks best to do so.
Teacher : When a pupil is excluded
from school on account of a contagious
disease, how long must such pupil remain
absent from school
Class : Ask the local health officer.
The period varies for different diseases.
Teacher : When diseases like measles
spread in a school who suflrers most
Class : The brothers and sisters of
the pupils who are too young to go
to school.