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Five years ago the Visiting Nurse Society of Philadelphia placed a nurse in a large public school in one of the poorest quarters of the city, to work in conjunction with the medical inspector. They chose Miss Anna L. Stanley for this post, and for several years she carried on the work alone. Last fall the society placed four other nurses in the schools, under the direction of Miss Stanley. As a result of the successful pioneer work done by the Visiting Nurse Society, Councils have recently authorized the Board of Education to appoint a super244 THE PSYCHOLOGICAL CLINIC. vising nurse at a salary of $1,200 a year, and five assistant nurses at $900 each. It will be a source of gratification to those who have followed the history of the school nurses, to learn that Miss Stanley has been appointed supervising nurse by the Board of Education, for it is largely owing to her tact and devotion that the experiment has been brought to a successful conclusion.
The British Child Study Association has united with the Childhood Society to form the Child-Study Society. In consequence of the reorganization, The Paidologist, hitherto the journal of the ChildStudy Association, has been discontinued, and its place will be taken by a new magazine called Child Study, which will be published as the official organ of the new society.
The officers of the Child-Study Society are: President, Sir Edward W. Brabrook, C.B.; Vice-President, The Hon. Sir John Cockburn, M.D.; Honorary Secretaries, Miss Mary Louch and W. J. Durrie Mulford, Esq. The Philadelphia Teachers’ Association, organized three years ago as an experiment, has proved a flourishing success. Its membership of nearly four thousand includes representatives in every public school in the city. For the winter of 1907-08 committees have been appointed to plan and discuss every phase of educational work. These committees are as follows: On professional work; on higher schools; on grammar schools; on primary and kindergarten schools; on professional reading; on public meetings; on the immigrant child; on special schools; on legislation; on entertainment; on membership; a conference committee of teachers of eighth year grammar and first year high school; on Lewis Elkin Boom (in the Jefferson Hospital); and an auditing committee. Of these, the committee on special schools is naturally the one whose proceedings are of the greatest interest to readers of The Psychological Clinic. In the Normal School, on the 11th of November, the committee held a symposium on “The Problem of Special Education.” The program included addresses by Miss Lydia A. Ivirby, superintendent of special schools; Mr. George Wheeler and Dr Oliver P. Cornman, district superintendents; Mr. E. A. Huntington, principal of Special School No. 3; Miss Mary Days, a teacher in Special School No. 5; Miss Corinne B. Arnold and Miss Margaret Maguire, supervising principals; and Dr Walter S. Cornell, medical inspector. On December 9th another conference was held in the Normal School to discuss the question, “Who Shall Determine whether a Child Is a Fit Candidate for a Special School?” Four observation trips for the teachers of special schools have also been arranged, the first of which was made on Saturday, November lGtli, to the New Jersey Training School for Feebleminded Children at Vineland, N. J.
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