Hygiene, dental and general (1920) (14778997374)

Identifier: hygienedentalge00turn (find matches)
Title: Hygiene, dental and general
Year: 1920 (1920s)
Authors: Turner, C. E. (Clair Elsmere), 1890-1974 Rice, William
Subjects: Hygiene Teeth
Publisher: St. Louis, C. V. Mosby
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress



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ral use in New York City. These quarters should be centrally located, preferably onthe ground floor, and should have the essentials of a waitingroom, proper lighting, an electrically lighted chart and dis-tance of 20 or at least 15 feet for eye examination, a lava-tory and table with the necessary filing cabinets for records.The diagram shows a convenient arrangement by which thewaiting room space may be used in eye examinations so that aroom 12 by 20 feet is made sufficient. In cases where theroom is not in constant use it may be used on alternate days SCHOOL HYGIENE 281 as a clinic. In this case the room should be somewhat largerand might contain as a complete equipment: a desk, ward-robe, medicine cabinet, two chairs, couch, lavatory, scaleswith measuring rod, electrically lighted vision chart, portablescreen and a filing cabinet with the medical and surgical sup-plies in most common use such as cotton, gauze, bandages(1 and 2 inch), boracic acid, green soap, collodion, tincture of
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Fig. 45.—Floor plan and arrangement of medical inspectors room generally fol-lowed in New York City. By the arrangements indicated, the width of the waitingroom may be used in eye examinations and a space 12 by 20 feet is sufficient forboth waiting room and examining room. (After Berkowitz.) iodine, sulphur ointment, white precipitate ointment, vaseline,peroxide, lysol, aromatic spirits of ammonia, hand scrub,tongue depressors, toothpicks, argyrol, cocaine, bichloride ofmercury, atropine, alloy, bluestone, yellow oxide of mercury,and nitrate of silver. Administration.—Perhaps the best way to describe the med-ical activities in school hygiene is to cite the example of a citywhich has developed a good system of medical inspection. The 282 HYGIENE: DENTAL AND GENERAL city of Detroit, Michigan, which has a population of 900,000and a school population of 130,000, has perfected a divisionof medical school inspection under the Department of Health.The present activities of this division