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EPILEPSY.
There is insuperable difficulty in finding institutions willing to take in
sane epileptic children. Their presence in the public elementary schools,
as with mentally deficients, is a trial to the teachers, and, when fits occur,
disturbing to the scholars. The number of institutions in England is small
and the cost beyond the means of poor parents.
TUBERCULOSIS.
The number of boys with a family history of consumption was 352, or
14.1 per cent., and 378 girls, or 14.6 per cent.
During 1919 Dr. Strong sent ten "B" notifications to the M.O.H. Of
these, the reports on three boys and two girls referred to pulmonary tuberculosis,
and the same number to other forms of tubercle.

Out of the children in the several groups for routine medical inspection
the cards of 1,031 were marked for re-examination by reason of their weight
and physique being unsatisfactory. All were called up for re-examination
—771 showed improvement, 7 showed further loss of weight, 16 stationary, 237
were absent.