The Chickasha Daily Express

Vision of School Children.

An examination of forty children from two public schools in New York city shows some striking results. The forty pupils examined were the worst that could be found in the two schools, eighteen of them being so stupid that they were in ungraded classes, eleven were so stupid that they required three terms to do the work of one term, and eleven were delinquent. All of the forty children had defective vision. They were fitted with proper glasses, and after six months it was found that thirty-two of them had made astonishing progress. These thirty-two were under as many different teachers. A report of this work has been made to the board of education, recommending that the entire care of the school children, mental, moral and physical, be vested in one department with a single head and that that should be the board of education; that a sufficient number of doctors be trained to deal with all defects of school children who are at present in the category of ungraded, backward or disciplinary cases; that any child whose work is unsatisfactory for one term should be examined and all defects of structure and habit corrected as far as possible—Journal of the American Medical Association.