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Second Aoe Group.
If wc examine the commonest defects requiring treatment in
this group, we find :—
(i) Again Dental Disease is by far the commonest type of
defect, i.e., 21.05 per cent, of children examined (20.27 per cent.)
(ii) Sulmormal Nutrition = 12.14 per cent, of the children
examined (3.16 per cent.)
(iii) Eye Defects = 5.33 per cent. (7.07 per cent.) and defective
vision amounts to 4.35 per cent, of all the children examined in this
group.
(iv) Nose, and Throat Defects = 2.80 per cent. (5.08 per cent.)
(v) Other Defects and Diseases = 2.31 per cent. (3.50 per cent.)
(vi) Lungs (Bronchitis and Other Non-T.B. Diseases) = 1.68
per cent. (2.33 per cent.)
(vii) Deformities — 1.12 per cent. (1.85 per cent.)
(viii) Anaemia. = 0.70 per cent.
Heart = 0.28 per cent.
0.98 per cent, for Heart
and Circulation.
(ix) Ear Defects — 0.42 per cent. (1.16 per cent.) (including
defective hearing.)
(x) Enlarged Cervical Glands (Non-T.B.) = 0.42 per cent.
(0,68 per cent.)
(xi) Rheumatism — 0.35 per cent.
(xii) Tuberculosis = 0.21 per cent.
(xiii) Epilepsy = 0.14 per cent.
(xiv) Skin Diseases = 0.07 per cent.
Third Age Group.
On scrutinising the individual defects marked up for treatment
at the " Leaver " group inspection, it is found that:—
(i) Visual Defects — 7.35 per cent, of all the children inspected
in the " Leaver " group, This is very similar to the figure for 1934,
viz., 8.71 per cent.