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

16 The Health Bulletin September, 19.jTquired that a woman teacher accompanythe team on all trips and be presentwhen games are played.16. All players must receive a medicalexamination prior to the beginning ofpractice in any sport.17. Players must receive a medicalexamination prior to his or her returnto play or practice following a seriousinjury or illness.18. It is recommended that players becovered by adequate medical and accidentinsm-ance and that medical aidbe immediately available at all gamesinvolving body contact.19. Practice in any sport may notstart before August 15 and at leastthree weeks practice must precede thefirst game or contest in any sport.20. Tournament play should be limitedto three days in any week and thereshould be at least 24 hours between successivecontests played by a team. Underno conditions should there be morethan one track meet or football gamein one week.21. Interschool competition for boysand girls in grades one through eight isstrongly opposed and it is recommendedthat this practice be discontinued. It isalso recommended that intercity, intercommunityand interschool games betweenteams composed of elementaryschool age children sponsored by communityorganizations be discouraged inevery way possible.22. It is recommended that violationof any of the above regulations wouldforfeit the school's right to participatein interschool athletics for a specifiedperiod of time.All of the above regulations are aimedat safeguarding the health and welfareof the individual player. Numbers 16-20are more directly related to the healthof the students. Other considerationswhich are of vital importance to thehealth of team members include suchthings as clean imiforms for practiceand play, adequate dressing and showerfacilities which are kept in a sanitarycondition, provision of clean towels, individualpaper cups for water duringgames, adequate sleep and rest, lengthof practice periods, amount of dust anddirt on gymnasium floors, protectiveequipment for hazardous games, andchecking to see that students who areactually HI do not participate. Such arethe duties of teachers and principals.There is more involved in safeguardingthe health of school children thanmeets the eye of the casual observeras can readily be seen from considerationof the above paragraph. It is theresponsibility of all the people in thecommunity to demand that athletics beconducted according to safe and saneprinciples. It is also our responsibility torefuse to condone anything that failsto measure up to the best in terms ofsafeguarding the welfare of boys andgirls.SEPARATE BABIES FROM TBMOTHERS AS PRECAUTIONAGAINST DISEASEBabies born of tuberculous motherswho are removed from contact with themother immediately after birth do notcontact the disease, according to threepediatricians.Drs. B"red Ratner of New York, AlexanderE. Rostler of Fall River, Mass.,and Pierre S. Salgado of Port-Au-Prince,Haiti, writing in the American Journalof Diseases of Children, added that withproper diet these infants will grow anddevelop the same as infants born ofhealthy mothers.According to the article, the incidenceof prematurity in offspring oftuberculous mothers is exceedingly high,ranging from 23 to 64 per cent, dependingon the severity of the disease in themother.The American Journal of Diseases ofChildren is a publication of the AmericanMedical Association.Don't let your children play with fii-eworkson the Fourth of July, the NationalSafety Council suggests. Theyoungsters—and you, too—wUl get abigger thrill from a public display. Andit's a lot safer.