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Event

County nurse gives Beaver Island school health checks (1960)

Also November 1960 school hearing tests and vaccinations

Draft — sources verified, prose evolving

TypeEvent
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era

Summary

The November 1960 school report said Mrs. Rice, the County Nurse, gave hearing tests to children above third grade and that booster shots and vaccinations were given to all children.

Evidence and limits

No individual test results, diagnoses, vaccine types, consent records, or health department files are reproduced. The nurse’s given name is not supplied.

Open questions

  • Which county health and school records document the screening and vaccinations?

See also

Sources

  1. Beaver Beacon, November 1960, school health notice.
    Reports that Mrs. Rice, the County Nurse, gave hearing tests to children above third grade and that booster shots and vaccinations were given to all children. It does not provide a nurse's full identity, test results, vaccine types, consent records, or health department files.