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I have knowledge of at least two other such deaths having
occurred in Croydon during the period I have been the Principal
School Medical Officer.
HEIGHTS AND WEIGHTS
The figures of average heights and weights are recorded in
Appendix B, Table II.
Hie post-war trend of yearly increases has ceased and a new
level of averages has been reached. In 1954, I showed the
difference between 1908, when average figures were first recorded
by the School Medical Officer and this is repeated in
Appendix B,Table II to cover 50 years.
It is true that a very small minority of children are now
being kept under observation for obesity, but this is surely an
acceptable price to pay for the remarkable improvement in the
nutrition of the majority.
VISION TESTS
Experience has shown that the eyesight of entrants can be
tested:-
(a) if the child is over five years of age.
(b) school attendance has exceeded one completed school term
School nurses use either the "pictorial" or the "E-cards" as
may be appropriate. Letter cards are useless as apparently
there is no teaching of block capitals. Results of these tests
are given in Appendix B, Table VIII.