Excerpt from The Ninth Yearbook of the National Society for the Study of Education, Vol. 2: The Nurse in Education The most important of all the nation's resources is the health of the people. The most valuable asset in this capital of national vitality is the health of the children. The public school is the most effective agency of the nation for the conservation of child health and in the long run the school will become the most influential factor in the conservation of national health as a whole. In the past the schools, even under most favorable circumstances, have been to some degree at least disadvantageous, and frequently directly dangerous to the health of children. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.