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89 See, for example, A Chapter of Child Health, 65–66; Virginia Health Bulletin 20 (April 1928): 4–5; and American Child Health Association, Celebrating May Day in 1929, (Indiana) 42, (Missouri) 63, (Ohio) 73, and (Kentucky) 80; Mary S. Hoffschwelle , “Organizing Rural Communities for Change: Commonwealth Fund Child Health Demonstration in Rutherford County, 1923–1927,” Tennessee Historical Quarterly 53 (Fall 1994): 157; and see organizers’ delight when Mansfield , Ohio, decided its town slogan would be “Mansfield: The Home of Blue Ribbon Children,” in American Child Health Association, Child Health Demonstration: Mansfield and Richland County, Ohio, 1922–1925 (New York: American Child Health Association, [1926]), 28. Inspections of schoolchildren by a doctor or nurse initially sought to identify and exclude children with contagious diseases but gradually expanded in scope to include the detection of physical defects; see Van Ingen, “History of Child Welfare,” 296–99; and S. Josephine Baker, “Child Hygiene,” in Public Health and Hygiene, ed. William Hallock Park, 685–89, 2nd ed. (Philadelphia: Lea and Febiger, 1928). 90 The ADA distributed plays such as The Bad Baby Molar (1924) and Stepping Stones to Health (1925), both written by dentist Lon W. Morrey, as well as Toothsome Stories, and guides such as “Mouth Health Week in Mississippi” (1926) by Gladys Eyrich; see “List of Material Available.” For a two-page list of child health songs, plays, poems, and games distributed by professional groups, see CharlesEdward Amory Winslow and Pauline Brooks Williamson, The Laws of Health and How To Teach Them (New York: Charles E. Merrill, 1925), 375–76. 91 Means, History of Health Education, 91–96, 178. 92 See, for example, Ethel M. Dox, “Playing the Game of Health,” Hygeia 8 (1930): 663–65; Anonymous, “The Vegetable Parade in Healthville,” Hygeia 9 (1931): 152–54; and Katherine L. Carber, “A Parade of Clean Children,” Hygeia 4 (1926): 149. 93 Jean Broadhurst, All through the Day the Mother Goose Way: Mother Goose’s Children of Long Ago; What Gave Them Pains and Aches and What Made Them Grow (Philadelphia : J. B. Lippincott, 1921). 94 Jean, “Instruction of School Children,” 379. 95 Moulton, Brownies’ Health Book, 154. 96 Lucille Sissman, “On Board the S.S. Health: A Short Play for Children,” Hygeia 5 (1927): 154. 97 Klaus, Every Child a Lion, 274–76; and Jeffrey P. Brosco, “Weight Charts and Well Child Care: When the Pediatrician Became the Expert in Child Health,” in Formative Years: Children’s Health in the United States, 1880–2000, ed. Alexandra Minna Stern and Howard Markel (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2002), 91–120. 98 Baker, Child Hygiene, 52. On the “weighing and measuring ritual,” see Viner and Golden, “Children’s Experiences of Illness,” 582–83. 99 C. E. Turner and George B. Collins, Health (New York: D.C. Heath, 1924), 14–15. 100 Edith Wilhelmina Lawson, Better Health for Little Americans (Chicago: BeckleyCardy Company, 1926), 19. 101 See Muncy, Creating a Female Dominion, 38–65; Borden S. Veeder, “Philip Van Ingen (1875–1952),” in Pediatric Profiles, ed. Borden S. Veeder (St. Louis: C. V. Mosby, 1957), 182–88. On the primary position of female nurses and health teachers in public health photography, see Janet Golden, “The Iconography of Child Public Health: Between Medicine and Reform,” Caduceus 12 (Winter 1996): 67–68 and in this volume. On the prominence of women in civic and sanitary reform movements in the Progressive Era, see Suellen Hoy, “Municipal 66 NAOMI ROGERS Housekeepers: The Role of Women in Improving Urban Sanitation Practices, 1880–1917,” in Pollution and Reform in American Cities, ed. Martin Melosi (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1980), 173–98. 102 Louise F. Brand, “Ef You Don’t Watch Out,” [enclosed in] West Virginia State Department of Health, Bureau of Public Health Education [Child Health Day 1936], folder 4-9-0-5-3, box 511, Children’s Bureau central file 1933–1936, Record Group 102, National Archives. 103 J. H. Mason Knox, Jr. [chief, Bureau of Child Hygiene, Maryland State Department of Health] to Grace Abbott, 15 April 1925, folder 4-11-0-2, box 275, Children ’s Bureau central file 1925–1928, Record Group 102, National Archives. 104 Emma Serl, Everyday Doings in Healthville: A Health Reader (New York: Silver, Burdett and Co., 1929), 29–30. On the broader cultural interest in body image and the dangers of an underweight child, see Joan Jacobs Brumberg, The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls (New York: Random House, 1997). 105 Ada E. Schweitzer [Child Health Division...

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