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The above table gives in a concise form the results of findings
at Routine Medical Inspections.
Defects of the nose and throat are once again the commonest
defects found. The entrant group is the worst and the leaver the
best. Under-nutrition is found in about 15 per cent, of all
children examined. Girls showed a rather higher proportion of
under-nutrition than boys. The findings for Dental Defects are
what might be expected in view of the present lack of systematic
supervision of children of pre-school age. It must be noted that,
although facilities exist for the detection and treatment of dental
disease before school age, parents do not avail themselves of them
to any very great extent. Throughout the girls show rather
better findings than the boys. Enlarged cervical glands, which
have a relation both to dental defects and to under-nutrition, were
commonest in the intermediate group, and were more often found
in bovs than girls. There is a drop in the percentages as compared
with 1930. Defective vision increased as age increased and
the effect of scholastic routine, together with the strain of bodily
growth must be held to be the main cause of this finding. The
girls suffered more than the boys—the usual findinaf—hut as a
whole there were fewer cases of defective vision than in 1930. As
children who are wearing spectacles which correct vision are included
as having normal vision, the more common practice 0
wearing spectacles may mask the actual amount of defective
vision.