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I have knowledge of at least two other such deaths having
occurred in Croydon during the period I have been the Princeple
School Medical Officer.
HEIGHTS AND HEIGHTS
Hie figures of average heights and weights are recorded
Appendix B, Table II.
The post-war trend of yearly increases has ceased and a new
level of averages has been reached. In 1954, I showed the
difference between 1908, when average figures were firs the
corded by the School Medical Officer and this is repeated
Appendix B, Table II to cover 50 years.
It is true that a very small minority of children are
being kept under observation for obesity, but this is surely
acceptable price to pay for the remarkable improvement in the
nutrition of the majority.
VISION TESTS
Experience has shown that the eyesight of entrants can
tested:-
(a) if the child is over five years of age.
(b) school attendance has exceeded one completed school ten
School nurses use either the "pictorial" or the "E-cards'
may be appropriate. Letter cards are useless as apparente
there is no teaching of block capitals. Results of these test
are given in Appendix B, Table VIII.