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Even more encouraging than the reduction in incidence is the
noticeable reduction in the degree of these defects. The majority
of the defects and deformities now recorded are trivial when compared
with those found in the early days of school medical inspection.
We now register and treat slight departures from the normal
which would have been ignored in earlier days.
Percentage Incidence of Defects in Individual Schools.
(By Dr. F. W. Gavin.)
Deputy School Medical Officer.
With a view to determining the percentage incidence of defect
among comparable age groups in the different schools in the area,
Dr. F. W. Gavin has prepared the following tables and observations
regarding the percentage incidence of defects found in individual
schools among the three code groups submitted to routine medical
examination during 1933. A similar analysis—by Dr. Gavin—
the first of the kind undertaken—appeared in last year's Annual
Report; and the value of these annual analyses should increase
as the figures for successive years become available.