Bureau Publication, Issue 79U.S. Government Printing Office, 1912 - Child welfare |
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2.fSufficiently sound 2.JSufficiently sound health 3.1 ical fitness Alabama board of education board of health board or department certificate of physical child labor law Child Welfare child's physical condition CHILDREN GOING Children's Bureau committee Connecticut Dental Caries department of labor enforcing EXAMINATIONS OF CHILDREN examining physician fitness for intended footnote Hampshire health and phys health officer hookworm Illinois Indiana industrial commission intended work.1 Intestinal parasites issue certificates issuing officer Jersey Kentucky labor and statistics LEGAL REQUIREMENTS Maryland Massachusetts ment minimum age minimum standards Missouri NASOPHARYNX Normal development North Carolina North Dakota occupation officer of board Ohio permits physical examination Physical fitness PHYSICAL STANDARDS Physician appointed Physician designated power to require prescribed promise of employment provision provisional certificates public-school record blank record card record form regular employment certificate require a child REQUIREMENTS FOR PHYSICAL school authorities School physician school superintendents Sufficiently sound health termination of employment tion Wisconsin work.¹ York
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Page 9 - ... A child shall not be allowed to go to work until he has had a physical examination by a public-school physician or other medical officer especially appointed for that purpose by the agency charged with the enforcement of the law, and has been found to be of normal development for a child of his age and physically fit for the work at which he is to be employed.
Page 20 - ... upon presentation by the child of a new promise of employment and a new certificate of physical fitness.
Page 9 - Physical examinations for children entering industry. The physical fitness of children entering industry should be determined by means of a thorough physical examination conducted by a public medical officer appointed for this purpose. Where possible all examinations should be made without clothing. Before such a physical examination is made, the child should present a definite promise of employment in writing from his intended employer, stating the specific occupation at which he is to be employed.
Page 9 - Before such a physical examination is made, the child should present a deiinite promise of employment in writing from his intended employer, stating the specific occupation at which he is to be employed. 4. Reexaminations for children changing occupations. The employment certificate should not be given to the child, but sent by mail to the employer. When a child leaves the specific employment for which the certificate was issued, the employer should return the permit to the issuing officer by mail....
Page 5 - Bureau appointed a committee of physicians whose task it was to formulate definite standards of normal development and physical fitness for the use of medical examiners in making physical examinations of children applying for employment certificates, and also of working children.
Page 2 - An exceptionally good opportunity for putting into effect an adequate program of health supervision of working children is furnished by the compulsory continuation-school laws now In force in 27 States, which keep still under the control of the school authorities children who have left the all-day schools to enter industry by requiring them to spend a certain number of their working hours in classes specially provided for them. These States...
Page 12 - All children who are temporarily refused employment certificates because of the existence of physical defects as outlined under "6" should be referred to the care of a public medical officer, school physician, family physician, or school nurse, who should make every effort to see that the necessary medical treatment or other care is secured for the child. As soon as such treatment has been completed, or the defect has been corrected, the issuance of the employment certificate may be recommended....
Page 10 - MINIMUM STANDARDS OF PHYSICAL FITNESS FOR CHILDREN ENTERING AND WORKING IN INDUSTRY. 1. Standards of normal development. a. Certificates should be refused to children who do not come up to the following minimum standards of height and weight for specified age, which are based on the most reliable experience and present-day practice. (Since at the present time children under...
Page 11 - B," must be referred to the care of a nurse of the Bureau of Child Hygiene who will assume jurisdiction of the case, and make every effort to see that the necessary medical treatment or other care is secured for the child. As soon as such treatment has been received, the employment certificate may be issued. In instances where treatment is refused, or for any reason not obtained for defects listed under "B," temporary refusals may be made permanent at the end of one month.
Page 3 - ... physical examination is supposed to be repeated each time the child changes his position, and in Maryland each time he changes his occupation. In states requiring re-examination on change of position, the examination is supposed to have reference to the particular occupation and the child is therefore required to bring a promise of employment signed by the prospective employer and stating the occupation in which he is to be engaged. But studies of the administration of child labor laws made by...