The English law provides for such a medical examination. at least once a year. as would decide whether each child of school age was in such a condition as to take full advantage of the school facilities provided by the State. The amendment proposed by the gentleman from South Carolina not only provides for rural education and industrial education. but also investigation into the very important matter of school hygiene. The State of Pennsylvania has learned that by means of this law they can discover and eradicate obscure diseases that existed in the homes of some of those who have recently immigrated to this country. After the children have been sent out of school because they have a certain disability or disease. in indigent cases doctors and nurses are frequently provided by the local communities. and thus not only the physical but the moral and the mental tone of the families. as well as that of the State as a whole. can be greatly improved and advanced. The increase of this appropriation will assist in extending industrial education to the rural communities.
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