Annual report. [1915]

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Bulacan, Cebu, and a number of other divisions, medical inspections and treatment of school children have been carried on
with good results. In some other provinces, where the personnel of the Health Service has been limited, only the larger
municipalities have been reached. District health officers have
given as much attention as possible to the schools and many
teachers have given personal attention to the health of the
children.
A series of municipal forms has been prepared by the Philippine Health Service for use in all municipalities where efficient
medical inspection is possible. These are: No. 4, "Record of
Physical Examination of School Children;" No. 5, "Notification
of Physical Condition of School Children;" No. 46, "Report of
Physical Defects." These are of great assistance in carrying
on medical inspections and form a valuable record of the health
of school children.
It is highly essential that the system of medical inspection be
extended to school children in all parts of the Archipelago. This
is the fourth or fifth report in which specific attention has been
invited to the need, and it is again urgently recommended that
provision be made whereby the work can be effectively carried
on by the Philippine Health Service.
COURSES OF STUDY.
It is now some years since the Philippine public schools have
been enjoying a balanced curriculum with emphasis upon three
phases-academic instruction, industrial work, and physical
training-each conducted as a distinct and essential part of the
regular eleven-year course. The term "academic instruction"
explains itself. It refers primarily to such subjects as the three
R's, geography, history, and certain cultural and professional
branches. Industrial work is perhaps the most clearly defined
form of vocational training. Not infrequently are these two
terms confused; we take it, however, that vocational training
is that which fits the pupil for one career rather than for some
other, be the career that of lawyer, doctor, machinist, laborer,
or whatever it will. On the other hand, industrial work is that
branch of vocational training which is intended primarily for
those who must make their living by some form of more or less
skilled manual labor. Industrial work is distinct from what is
commonly called manual training, in that the former aims to
give the fundamentals for a calling upon which one may depend
in afterlife for his living, whereas the latter is but the manual
training which is considered beneficial to a well-rounded education along cultural lines. Physical training, the third phase