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 card, which the teacher keeps. There are three orders of card— "Good," "Fair," and "Bad." The first card is that of the healthy children—the "good "group. In the second are the children in "fair" health. In the third or "bad" group are the children who suffer from some disease, or who are very weakly. These are all under "medical control," as their health card shows, and they are seen by the doctor at every class visit—that is, once a fortnight. Their growth and condition are always under his observation, and also, of course, under the teacher's, who knows more or less now what she is to expect from these children.

On the teacher falls also one important duty—that of recording at regular intervals the weight and stature of healthy and unhealthy children.

From the first Wiesbaden took the whole question of weighing and measuring very seriously. Dr. Paul Schubart declares in his book, The School Doctor in Germany, from which most of these facts are quoted, that weighing and measuring in school has for the school-doctor the same value, as a means of finding out the condition of children, as has the thermometer for the doctor who stands by a patient's sick-bed. "There is, however, one great difference between the thermometer and the measuring and weighing machine," says Schubart. "One cannot reckon on