Of a total of 424 defective children found in the Charlotte public schools during the last month, 290 were white and 134 colored, according to the December report of Miss Clara Ross, supervising nurse, to the Charlotte Co-operative Nursing Association.
The greater number of the little defectives were suffering from tonsils, adenoids and poor teeth, according to Miss Ross.
Taking the white schools first, Miss Ross reports that she and her assistants paid 98 visits and made preliminary examinations of 517 children. First aid dressings were given in 523 cases and there were five operations for tonsils and adenoids.
In all but 105 cases the defects were easily corrected and the students lost little time from their classes, but 105 of those examined were excluded from school for brief periods. Forty-six of these latter were suffering from scarlet fever, most of the others being bothered by mumps, sore eyes and other minor ailments.
Conditions were much improved in the colored institutions. During the 37 visits of the nurses there were 253 examinations and 102 first aid dressings. Only tow operations for tonsils and adenoids were found necessary. Only three children were excluded from school all for the same reason—high temperatures. Of the 134 children found defective, 70 had defective teeth and 56 were bothered with their tonsils and adenoids.
There are now 408 cases of tuberculosis in Charlotte, Miss Ross reports. During the month 20 new cases were reported and eight cases closed.
Miss Ross was assisted in her work during the month by the following nurses:
--Miss Ruby L. Kelly, Miss Alice L. Grier, Miss Birdie Barber and Miss Leole Sullivan, general nursing.
--Miss Beatrice Setzer, venereal nursing, Miss Elzena Rankin, tuberculosis nursing.
--Miss Grace Gibson, Miss H. Medlock and Miss Edna Hill, school nursing.
--Nellie McKenzie, Blanche Hayes, colored nurses.
From The Charlotte News, Sunday, Jan. 8, 1922
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