Personal hygiene and physical training for womenGalbraith, Anna M. (Anna Mary)
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Personal hygiene and physical training for women
Galbraith, Anna M. (Anna Mary)
Physical education and training; Women -- Health and hygiene
This medical blank was made to gauge as accurately as possible the
physical condition of women, on which their working efficiency
depends. While we cannot measure the strength and adaptability of the
heart and blood-vessels with the same degree of accuracy as height,
weight, and chest measurements, yet with the physical examination and
the tests of endurance we can make a very fair estimate. And we are
entirely dependent for the history of heredity, personal history, and
that of the digestive and nervous systems upon the woman herself;
but the history of the present condition at least can be to a great
extent verified or annulled by the physical examination and by the
present condition.
By the quickness and conciseness with which the questions are
answered; the woman’s posture when she does not realize that it is
being studied; her movements as she goes from one test to another
and the way she conducts herself throughout this very rigid physical
examination, which working under high pressure with the aid of a
stenographer and office nurse, takes one hour to complete; one can
judge pretty accurately of her working efficiency.
The applicants should be graded into four classes:
Class A. Those having an excellent record in all tests.
Class B. Those having a good average record and no poor record in any
test.
Class C. Those having a fair average record and who are free from
organic defects.
Class D. Those having some definite organic disease which, in the
judgment of the examiner, would make it dangerous for the individual
to undertake any confining or laborious occupation.
Only those who come under Class “A” or “B” should be recommended
for any confining or laborious occupation. By suitable methods for
the correction of faulty habits of hygiene and systematic physical
training for one year those in Class “C” should be able to gain
admittance to one of the first two classes.
To be most beneficial to the candidate, after the physical
examination is completed, there should follow a brief personal talk,
making suggestions for the correction of faulty personal hygiene; and
where medical treatment is indicated, instructions to place herself
under the care of a physician. This has from the first been the
policy of the board and of the medical examiner.
And on their part, the candidates are now beginning to thoroughly
realize that these examinations are decidedly to their advantage
and regard them as a privilege to which they are entitled. And the
majority of them go out with the determination to get and keep well
and strong.
SPECIAL MEDICAL BLANK FOR WOMEN
Report of Medical Examiner
In the case of
Address,
Place of birth,
Age, Occupation,
=I.= =Heredity: Adverse Family History.=
Tuberculosis?
Insanity or tendency to nervous exhaustion?
Cancer?
Heart disease?
Kidney disease?
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