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This table is to be read with Dr. Orgler's report in his
height and weight research, which appears under the following
heading.
Malnutrition and Cleanliness.
The Assistant School Medical Officers, Dr. G. H. Stinson
and Dr. Arnold Orgler, both report on their findings at inspections
that, generally, nutrition of the school children is good.
Dr. Stinson observes that many children, hitherto difficult over
meals at home, will take their meals with other children at
School, and Dr. Orgler comments that parents have become more
"food-conscious."
Dr. Stinson found that a considerable number of children
returned from reception areas with verminous heads, scabies
and impetigo, but since cleaning up these cases we have been
very free of skin troubles. Dr. Orgler notes that from amongst
the children coming under his inspection there has been a
definite decline in scabies and impetigo, and, regarding pediculosis,
conditions are very much the same as in the previous year.
The School Nurses made 9,554 examinations of children for
verminous conditions during 1944, and of this number 135
Vidual children were found unclean.
Following up his investigation, published in the 1943 Report
into heights and weights of school children averaging 13 years,
Dr. Arnold Orgler has pursued his research regarding nutrition
of choildren in war-time, and in the following report he has
sought to discover whether nutrition at the present time is contributing
to reasonable normal growth and affording as far as
possible a physical build up in the children to protect them
against disease.
i am indebted to Dr. Orgler for the interest he has taken in
this field of research His conclusions are a valuable contribution
towards the study of the Nutritional Standards.