A survey of the educational system of the Philippine islands by the Board of educational survey, created under acts 3162 and 3196 of the Philippine Legislature.

HEALTH AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION

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(3) Posters.-Prepare posters on food, posture, sleeping, exercise,
and similar health subjects. Ask the children to bring pictures suggestive of health. These may be secured from newspapers and magazines.
Poster making may be made an individual or team competition.
(4) Notebooks.-Each child should keep in a notebook certain
health records: Monthly weight and height, daily health habits, stories
with a health lesson, etc.
(5) First aid kits.-Hold a contest in preparing first aid kits.
Very simple materials may be approved. A cigar box will serve admirably as the container. Use the contest for teaching what to use
in emergencies and how to care for accidents. This contest may run for
an entire year. Practical experience may be given the older children
when accidents occur.
(6) Health stories.-For the upper grades hold a contest for the
best story with a health lesson. Stories should be original. Judgment
of the best story should be given by the class.
RESEARCH.-The accomplishments of dental clinics in Bridgeport,
Connecticut, U. S. A., are noteworthy. Retardation in the schools has
been reduced by this work alone. Records and study of results have
shown that dental clinics are economically justified in Bridgeport, Connecticut, in the saving of money required to carry repeaters through
the grades. The public gives financial support for health measures
reluctantly until they are shown to be economically justified. The Filipino people may need economic development and modern education,
but as foundation to these they need to be freed from the bacteria and
parasites that wage continual warfare upon them. The health work
that has been done in the schools is a good beginning; it has had valuable results. Only a beginning has been made, however; more remains
to be done. This hope can be realized only as a scientific study and
campaign of health education is carried on through the schools. At
the present time the vision of Filipino school children is not measured.
To what extent abnormal vision exists is not known. This should be
determined. Malnutrition and anemia are apparently widespread
among school children. To what extent it exists and of what grade are
not known. To mention these problems states the nature of the work
to be done. It does not exhaust the list by any means.
PHYSICAL EDUCATION
ORGANIZATION.-To organize a program of physical education for
1,200,000 school children, enrolled in widely varying schools from
barrio to high and located on separate islands with very limited means of
intercommunication, is a difficult problem. To do this with meager