Health Problems of Elementary-School Children as Perceived by School Physicians, Nurses, and Principals

a given school. Thus it is important to know whether school physicians, nurses, and administrators agree on children's health needs and priorities. For it can be assumed that the quality of communication and co-operation by school health service personnel depends on their views on needs and priority. In 1965 the Los Angeles Unified School District served a population of 3,324,390. The District had 360,564 elementary-school children, 256,521 secondary-school children, and 3,187 physically handicapped children. In the 1964-65 school year the School Health Section operated on an annual budget of $6,178,484. Personnel of this section included eight supervising physicians and one hundred and fifteen staff physicians working for a full-time employee equivalerit of 95.6. The District employed eleven supervisory (administrative) nurses and four hundred and seven other nurses.