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(//) Ear Disease.—The condition of your children with regard
to ear disease remains practically as it was last year.
(i) Tonsils and Adenoids.—The number of cases of tonsils and
adenoids shows a perfectly unwarrantable incidence. There is
evidently something basicly wrong with the upbringing of the
children.
Last year I tentatively suggested a possibility of it being due
to an error of diet and I find myself being driven to the conclusion
that this opinion is right. Exactly where the deficiency lies I would
not like to say, although I shrewdly suspect that the deficiency
is really related to bread.
A part of the actual increase in the number of cases found
requiring treatment may be due to a rather higher standard being
set than previously, but I want to make it perfectly clear that no
operations are undertaken except on the advice of the surgeon
specialist at the hospital where the children are treated.
(j) Ttiberculosis.—There were II cases of tuberculosis amongst
children of school age notified to the Medical Officer of Health
during the year. Of these one was pulmonary and ten Were
non-pulmonary.