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96
SPECIAL ENQUIRIES.
At the request of Sir George Newman, Medical Branch.
Board of Education, records have been kept with a view to contributing
to the obtaining of accurate information as to the
incidence of goitre throughout the country. The need for this
information arose out of a special investigation of conditions
associated with enlargement of the thyroid glaad, and it was
suggested that a record of the result of the examination for this
purpose of all children on uniform lines on the occasion of routine
examination at the age of twelve years would be valuable. The
result of the record kept since the request was made, namely, the
13th March, 1921, to the end of the vear, is as follows:—
No. of children examined
for the purpose.
423
No. of children in whom the
thyroid was sufficiently enlarged
for the increase in the size of the
neck to be noticed on casual
inspection (without measurement
or palpation).
12
MISCELLANEOUS.
Four young persons who desired to become bursars and
student teachers were medically examined during the year, out of
which number one was rejected on medical grounds.
Home and Mothercraft.—This subject continued to be taught
under the heading of Domestic Science.