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INCIDENCE OF DEFECTS.
(Observations by Dr. F. W. Gavin).
Figures for previous Vear shown in brackets.
Entrants.
Oil examining the total numbers of the various defects marked
as requiring treatment, we find that:—
(i) Dental Defect is again, as in previous years, by far the
commonest defect and amounts to 30.36 per cent, of the children
examined (25.44 per cent, in 1934.)
(ii) Subnormal Nutrition = 7.44 per cent. (3.15 per cent.)
Malnutrition = 0.03 per cent.
Cases, however slight, of subnormal nutrition are included in
these figures.
(iii) Nose and Throat Defects — 4.32 per cent. (4.30 per cent.)
(iv) Eye Defects = 2.29 per cent. (2.29 per cent.)
(v) Lungs (Bronchitis and Non-T.B. diseases) - 1.78 per cent.
(1.32 per cent.)
(vi) Deformities — 1.40 per cent. (2.41 per cent.)
(vii) Other Defects and Diseases = 1.40 per cent.
(viii) Heart = 0.00 per cent, 1.01 per cent. (1.60 per
Anaemia = 0.95 per cent, cent.)
(ix) Ear Defects = 0.70 per cent. (1.03 per cent.)
(x) Nervous System Diseases = 0.19 per cent.
(xi) Rheumatism = 0.19 per cent. (0.91 per cent.)
(xii) Enlarged Cervical Glands (Non-T.B.) = 0.12 per cent.
(0.91 per cent.)
(xiii) Skin Defects = 0.00 per cent.
It is interesting to note the similarity of the 1934 and 1935
figures for defects of nose and throat.
The commonest defects are thus dental, nutritional and defects
of nose, throat and eye.