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total incidence of skin disease in school children. These conditions
vary greatly from time to time. Entrants gave 2.4 per cent. incidence
in boys and 2.3 per cent, in girls; intermediate boys 1.9 per
cent. and girls 1.8 per cent.; leavers 1.0 per cent. boys, and 0.5
per cent. girls, a total in all groups of 1.7 per cent. boys and 2.1
per cent. girls.

In the section of the report dealing with treatment, the subject
of deformities is dealt with more fully.

The defects found under the above headings show a lower
percentage throughout than for last year. The group percentages
for 1929 being entrants 4.6 per cent., intermediates 4.0 per cent.,
and leavers 2.2 per cent.