a. Examination of board of health records of children needing medical, dental, or ocular care, and better nourishment. b. Home visitation of such children, in order to ascertain whether their need arises from deficient income or from other causes. c. Effort to secure proper treatment, either from parents or from free clinics or other established agencies. d. Effort to secure proper physical surroundings of children while at school--playgrounds, baths, etc. 2. _Effort to secure establishment of such a system of school records and reports_ as will disclose automatically significant school facts,--e.g. regarding backward pupils, truancy, regularity of attendance, registered children not attending, sickness, physical defects, etc. 3. _Effort to utilize available information regarding school needs_ so as to stimulate public interest and thus aid in securing adequate appropriations to meet school needs. The committee grew out of the discussion, in the year 1905, of the following proposition: _To insure a race physically able to receive our vaunted free education, we must provide at school free meals, free eyeglasses, free medical and dental care._ Thanks to the superintendent of schools of New York City, to Robert Hunter's _Poverty_, to John Spargo's _Bitter Cry of the Children_, hundreds of thousands of American citizens were made to realize for the first time that a large proportion of our school children are in serious need of medical, dental, or ocular attention, or of better nourishment.