Excerpt from Medical and Sanitary Inspection of Schools: For the Health Officer, the Physician, the Nurse and the TeacherThe history of medical inspection of schools includes the history of both the school doctor and the school nurse. England was one of the first countries to look after the physical needs of the school child. There nurses were appointed before physicians; in America the process was reversed.School nursing may be considered as a development of visiting nursing. The latter originated in England about 1860 and reached America in 1877, when a New York City Mission sent the first trained nurse into the homes of the poor. Before 1905 the work was sporadic, but since then it has gained considerable headway.The school nurse, representing a new idea in visiting nursing, began work in Liverpool in 1887, when nurses paid daily visits to a few schools for the purpose of attending to minor injuries and complaints. They also called at the homes of Children who had more serious ailments and urged the parents to obtain the services of a physician. The early school nurses were volunteers, and it was not until 1901 that the London School Board appointed salaried municipal school nurses, with definite duties assigned. They examined the children for contagious skin diseases and excluded all cases found. The nurses did not treat the cases, and consulted only occasionally with the school medical officer. Later the nurse tested the vision and hearing, and kept a record of the physical examinations of the pupils.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.