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SECTION A. MEDICAL INSPECTIONS.
We had hoped to step-up our routine Medical Inspections
considerably in 1944, and, in spite of enemy activity during the
year, we were still able to improve on the figures for 1943, with
a total of 1,404 for 1944, as against 1,241 for 1943. The following
statistics reflect a very full year of activity, having regard to
the difficult circumstances.
Special Medical Inspections and re-inspections totalled 5,257
for 1944, and this figure does not include 2,914 children medically
examined prior to evacuation. A large number of these children
are still in reception areas, and are, or should be, receiving the
normal health attention in those areas.
The figures of inspections for 1944 are as follows:—

Findings at Medical Inspections.
Of the 1,269 routine examinations in the three age groups,
237 individual children (18.6 per cent.) were found to require
treatment excluding defects of nutrition, uncleanliness and
dental diseases) 274 defects were noted for treatment in these
children, and in addition 123 suspected defects were marked for
further observation. The examining doctors have reported that
there is a slight increase in "nervy children," which may be
ascribed to the general effect of the war.
the following figures enumerate the number of individual
children found at Routine Medical Inspections to require
treatment:–