Abstract
THE School Health Service of São Paulo, Brazil, claims to be one of the oldest, if not the oldest, child welfare institution. By a decree of December 28, 1938, the service has been reorganized, with the enlargement of existing facilities and the creation of other services including those of mental hygiene and child guidance clinic, allergy clinic, endocrinology and nutrition clinic, dermatology and syphilis clinic, educational puericulture for students of normal and professional schools, X–ray and laboratory services, etc. During the first half of 1939 the Service, which is under the Department of Education, attended 94,108 children, made 2,286 health examinations at headquarters and 42 at home, 1,426 vaccinations at headquarters, attended 39,144 children in the Largo de Arouche School Polytechnic, 4,216 in the eye service, 5,369 in the otorhinolaryngology service, 388 in the dermatology and syphilis clinic and 3,819 in the X–ray clinic. In the School Groups, 26,276 children were examined.
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School Hygiene in Sao Paulo. Nature 148, 163 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/148163b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/148163b0