Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 30 Jun 1938, p. 30

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6 -AZURLITEý,. BLUE OPHTHALMIC IENSUS H.re are opticay g cun un: glaises that make. everything a Tou qppeoe -in thefir .true cloawlthout icre or1 discomfort.1 ru . I ready. for kinndergarteni, w'"' ouc teeth and bodies. Free Health litera- ture is ýýalways available at the. Cen-, ter. Dr. Frank S. Needhamn, local health officer, .r eports that ail public, school teachers in Oak Park were required recenitly to undergo a. medical ex- amnination as a publie health meéas- ure. The main purpose of the proj- ect was to protect children fromn ex-, posure to any 'communicable diseases, with which anly of the teachers might, 1)e infected. In order to make the eNamninations as. benieficial as possible to the teach- ers themselves, each was offered an, opportuinity of, a thorough mnedical study. An X-ray picture of the che.st ical associatioflý Regard.ed in the medical and hos.. pital fields as an important.iidex to the quality of. professional work, the autopsy. ratings showed that post- niortem examiflations was coflduicted,, iii 78.9 per cent of the deatlis, oc- currilng at Evanston liospital du ,rinig the year. Only one hospital, iii the: Chicago area had'Îa higher percentage, the- University of Illinois, Research, IN1h ich ranked first. 0f the entire grouiPéý 27. institutionis, reached an honor rat- ing of 70 per cent or: highcr. Ev- ansgton, hospital was second, highest among, those. coiitrolled, by iilon-p)rofit. associations. 4Aurlite loee alto recommne>ded gromnd t. your U>n>retriftion.- I COB AND COU sJiaereGan imporJ* ani eiure oi me i-111- vtrm-tu me au ~ il) '*ip i examination since tuberculosis is one essen-itial in mnedical teaching, silice of the mnost serious of communicable it permits first-hand observations of diseases, which may be spread fromi disease processes to be made by an infected teacher to pupils. medlical sttidents andi interns. More- A blood test for syphilis was also over, by permiitting the attendin.g included ini the examination. While physicians' diagnosis to be specifically the danger of spreading this disease confirmed or- corrected, the autopsv froni an infected teacher to pupils miay assist them ini the care of. is nuch less than of tuberculosis, dis- similar cases. coverv of the duisease when nrpe.pnt is . i - COMFOIRTERIS fuiictioiiiig of personnel eéspecïally itrained for that purpose and employed, on a permanent basis-Illinois Health Evanston Drama Cu I«M esileuger.8 1 à Club «a4uipy iclcaestne octor's desire for accurate knlowledge, and the ai)- sence of fear that examiliation inav reveal an error in diagnosis or utcat- ment. Commiienting on the higli standing of. the Evanston hospitàIl n i ew- lyý published list, Ada Belle M Cieery, superintendent of the lios-. pital, said, "The written consent oi li -luh~ ivJr. . . I.* ox oX 131() map4ie' iss avenue. John D. -Cox, Jr., will jinf rn bis family here the Feurtih of, JUlY for a two weeks' vacation. a var and, ri b the rei ITY ATER CâLARE RELIEF WITH MORE VISIBIL .1 1

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