by the attendance officer of the schools: and a corps of dental surgeons. The city physician and health officer cooperates with all of these. The school board confers with the medical advisory board on all medical and sanitary matters pertaining to the school work. The members of the medical advisory board, besides making inspections of the schools and recommendations to the school board in medical and sanitary matters, carry out a systematic physical examination of all the students in the public schools. In the high school and gymnasium the physical examinations are very thorough and no student is permitted to enter outdoor athletics or participate in the work of the gym under the supervision of the school nurse. Students with communicable disease are, of course, excluded from the schools until they may return with safety to all concerned. In a special room in the Hackley School building, well adapted for the purpose, the school board has installed a complete and thoroughly up to date equipment of furniture, instruments, supplies, etc., for dental work for school children who otherwise would not receive such care. Here every Monday 'forenoon may be found some one of the members of the Society of Dental Surgeons of Muskegon who with the school nurse as assistant devote that half day to charity work for the school children. nasium or swimming pool without first receiving the physical examination. In this work the examining physicians are assisted by the physical director for the boys and the physical director for the girls, respectively, of the gymnasium. A systematic examination of the eyes, ears, nose, throat and teeth is given to every student in the grades. Complete records are kept in all instances. Whenever a student is found physically defective or afflicted with any disease, the parent receives a written notice thereof and the child is from that time until the trouble is corrected, At the beginning of the medical inspection work in Muskegon's public schools there was some tendency to objection by the parents to the work with regard to their children. This has almost entirely disappeared. Parents now are anxious to have their children receive the benefit of the medical inspection and examination work and accept the warning cards and visits of the school nurse in a spirit of hearty cooperation. All of this has been made possible by judicious tactfulness and by the full cooperation of the superintendent and the school board of the public schools of the city of Muskegon. In the north wing there has recently been installed at an expense of $3,000, an Otis automatic, push-button, electric elevator. The great building contains many rooms, each furnished with all the necessary requisites. There are offices, reception parlors, lavatories, lockers on each floor, a beautiful auditorium, a lunch room, and work rooms of all descriptions. The first floor is reserved for the heavier manual labor, such as forging, machine work, and molding, together with pattern making, wood turning and applied art. The pattern shop is located in the southeast wing and is equipped with eighteen 4x10-inch W. R. and R. wood lathes, one large lathe, a 36-inch band saw, jig saw, two trimmers and a full equipment of tools for individual and general use in pattern making. Around the walls are eighteen benches with drawers and racks for tools. The mill room adjoins the pattern shop and is equipped with a universal cut-off and rip circular saw, a 36-inch planer, 12-inch buzz planer, surfacer and a grindstone. In this room all material is prepared for the various shops, only the older pupils being allowed to use the machinery. Power for the two rooms is supplied by a ten horse-power electric motor. Adjoining the mill room is a fire-proof paint room where all the paints, oil, varnishes, etc., are kept. The forge and the machine shops, adjoining each other, are located in the central part of the building. The forge shop is equipped with twenty Sturtevant down draft forges, a bar shear for cutting stock, a two hundred pound steam hammer, a post drill, an emery grinder, and the necessary anvils, vises, benches, swing and hand hammers, fullers, swages, punches, chisels, tongs, and similar tools used in ordinary forging. The blast is supplied by a 24inch blower, and the exhaust drawn by a 60inch steel fan. Power for these is supplied by a ten horse-power electric motor in the power room. The machine shop is fully equipped with a great variety of hand and machine tools. There are engine lathes, a planer, a drill press, a shaper, a milling machine, wet grinders, benches and vises for hand work, and drawers for individual tools. The tool room connected with this is fully supplied with all necessary measuring, marking and testing tools, taps and dies, drills, files, etc. West side view of Hackley Hospital, showing ambulance entrance and service buliding. |