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 health sheet of every child will be inspected by the doctor. The teacher will be present.

The giving of notices to the classes and assembling of the children will be done, of course, by teachers. (On the previous day the teacher will have observed what children should be examined, and will have sent out notices.)

If medical treatment appears to be necessary the parents are to receive information to that effect. They—the parents—are at liberty to choose what doctor they will employ, but the letter should contain a recommendation of any specialist treatment which may be required in any case. Older children may take this kind of information home and report it by word of mouth; but in the case of younger children, or where the word of mouth report has not been attended to, a printed letter (for which there is a form), should be filled in and sent. This is to be done, of course, only in cases of real illness and where the interest of the child and of the school demands it. In the filling in of these forms great care is to be taken not to give offence through hardness or roughness of expression."

The earnest effort of the Wiesbaden authorities to get in touch with parents, to enlighten without estranging them, has certainly met with wonderful success. About forty towns have adopted the Wies-