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.

498 EDUCATIONAL SURVEY OF THE PHILIPPINES

and vision), ears (condition and hearing), nose, mouth (teeth and tonsils), glands, posture, and feet. This course should be taught by a
nurse rather than a physician because the latter would tend to an academic development of the work rather than a professional one. There
would also be given instruction in how to make a sanitary inspection of
school buildings, and the essential elements in the hygiene of instruction.
(b) Forty (40) hours would be given to personal hygiene applied.
This would be the basal course for instruction in hygiene and sanitation
in the schools. The text should be a modern text in personal hygiene
that supplied an adequate background for teaching this subject.
(c) Ten (10) hours would be given to practice in making inspections and physical examinations of children.
(d) Ten (10) hours would be given to modern methods of health
instruction in the primary grades covering the use of charts dramatizations, health plays, records, and other pertinent material. The five
(5) hours a week for one semester should give the student familiarity
with the basal facts of hygiene, the essentials in detecting abnormal
conditions in the body, something in modern methods of health instruction, and in practice in making physical examinations.
TEACHERS IN SERVICE.-For the program in physical education
teachers in service should be prepared in institutes, assemblies, and
summer normal schools, by offering units of the program set up for the
regular year. In similar fashion the necessary program of health education, both in health supervision and in health instruction, will require
active organization for improvement of teachers in service. This can
be accomplished in similar fashion.
RECOMMENDATIONS
Some of the proposals of the Survey Commission can be carried into
effect at once; others must await preparation of teachers and other con-
siderations. Here will be indicated those which seem to be of immediate importance and those which will have to wait.
To Be Accomplished at Once
(1) COUNCIL OF HEALTH AND PHYSICAL EDUCATION.-This
should be appointed by the Secretary of Public Instruction, and
be composed as follows: (a) Supervisor of Health and Physical
Education, Chairman; (b) Secretary of Philippine Amateur Athletic
Federation; (c) Representative of the American Red Cross; (d) Representative of the Junior Red Cross; (e) Representative of the
Philippine Health Service.
The function of the Council should be to at once: (a) Coordinate
all the agencies at work in the schools particularly with reference to