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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 10 per cent. of all children
examined. Girls showed a slightly higher proportion of undernutrition
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. 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 entrant group, and were more often found
in boys than girls. 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.
As children who are wearing spectacles which correct vision are
included as having normal vision, the more common practice of
wearing spectacles may mask the actual amount of defective vision.