Just because the physical welfare of the school child is an index to health needs, the school report can put into one statement for a city or a state the story told by the index. The accompanying card tells facts that the individual teacher and individual parent want to know about a child, what a superintendent wants to know about all children, and what a community wants to know about all children. A modification of this card will soon be adopted in New York City. It is both a card index and a card biography of the individual boy or girl. It is expected to follow the child from class to class, each teacher telling the story of his physical welfare and his progress. When the boy goes to a new school or new grade, his new teacher can see at a glance not only what subjects have given him trouble, but what diseases or physical defects have kept him out of school or otherwise retarded his progress. With this card it is easy to take a hundred children of the same age and the same grade, to put down in one column those who have eye defects, and in another those who have no eye defects, for every school, every district, and for the schools as a whole. Schools that use these record cards are enabled, by thus classifying the total, to learn where the defects of children are, how serious the problem is, how many days children lose from school because of preventable defects, and in what section of the city the defects are most prevalent. The mere reporting of facts will stimulate teachers, principals, and parents to give attention. For example, assume a table: FIELD OF INSPECTION Total number of public schools 7 Public schools under inspection 3 Public schools not under inspection 4 The reader wonders why four schools are neglected and which particular schools they are. Let the next table read: EXAMINATION Total registration in all schools 1500 Number of children examined 500 Number of children not examined 1000 Parents begin to wonder whether or not their children were examined, and why the taxes spent for school examination of all children go to one third of the children. The next table arrests attention: TREATMENT Number needing treatment 200 Number known to have been treated 50 Number not known to have been treated 150 We ask, at once, if examination is worth while, and if treatment really corrects the defects, saves the pupil's time and teacher's time, discovers many defects; and we want to find out whether the one hundred and fifty reported not treated have since been attended to. [Illustration: PUPIL'S RECORD] [Illustration: DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH CITY OF NEW YORK REPORT]