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mentally defective children and (4) the inspection of children
in connection with the supply of milk at the cost of the Education
Committee.
FINDINGS OF MEDICAL INSPECTION.
A detailed summary of defects found at both routine and special
inspections is contained in Table II on page 99.
Among the 6,415 children examined in a routine manner
there were, excluding uncleanliness and dental disease, 810 defects
requiring treatment and 1,145 requiring to be kept under observation.
The examination of the 5,112 children submitted to
special inspection revealed 3,621 defects requiring treatment and
505 requiring to be kept under observation.
Of the 6,415 children examined at the routine inspections,
754, or 11.7 per cent., were found to require treatment for one or
more defective conditions.
(a) Malnutrition.—The standard of nutrition of the children
examined at routine medical inspection is shown in Table II, B.,
on page 100. The classification is in accordance with the suggestions
of the Board of Education as set out in the Administrative
Memorandum No. 124 issued at the beginning of 1935.
As noted in the previous year the nutrition of the school
children in the Borough is very good, for no less than 97.5 per cent.
of the children examined at routine inspections were classed as
''excellent" or "normal," and only 160, or 2.5 per cent., were
found to be slightly sub-normal." There was one child classified
in the fourth group, "nutrition—bad."
During the year an enquiry was carried out regarding the
nutrition of the children attending the elementary schools in the
Borough. As a result the following report, which is now under
consideration, was submitted:—