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From about 1905 some medical practitioners pressed State governments to back official physical examinations of State school children. Their campaign embodied a broader project to identify and reduce incapacities undermining public hygiene and national efficiency. Some of the activists became inspectors in Tasmania, Victoria, South Australia and Queensland. Evidence about their relations with children, teachers, parents, communities and local GPs seems to be meagre but worth pursuing. The campaign's immediate and longterm effects on child health apparently disappointed its proponents 'hopes, but still might have helped many children and benefited national fitness. Later repercussions of boys being classed as 'fit' could prove deadly in the Great War.

From about 1905 some medical practitioners pressed State governments to back official physical examinations of State school children. Their campaign embodied a broader project to identify and reduce incapacities undermining public hygiene and national efficiency. Some of the activists became inspectors in Tasmania, Victoria, South Australia and Queensland. Evidence about their relations with children, teachers, parents, communities and local GPs seems to be meagre but worth pursuing. The campaign's immediate and longterm effects on child health apparently disappointed its proponents 'hopes, but still might have helped many children and benefited national fitness. Later repercussions of boys being classed as 'fit' could prove deadly in the Great War.

In 1935, the Federal Communications Commission launched its first campaign to ensure that broadcasters programmed in the public interest. The FCC's law department ran the campaign, focusing on the elimination of fraudulent medical radio advertising. Eighteen stations underwent hearings for airing such advertising, most often for one or more of seven particularly egregious firms; one station lost its license. The campaign, which took place during a protracted congressional battle over tougher controls for medicine and cosmetics, alarmed broadcasters and advertisers, involved other government departments, and was shut down after eight months.1