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5. FINDINGS OF MEDICAL INSPECTION.
In Table IIa (which is given in the Appendix) a list of all
defects found during medical inspection, whether routine or
non-routine, is shown. Table 11b gives the number of individual
children found at the routine medical inspection to require
treatment, excluding uncleanliness, and dental diseases.
There were 1,999 children examined at the routine medical
inspections. Three hundred and twenty-two or 16.1% were
found to be suffering from defects (excluding uncleanliness and
dental diseases) requiring treatment. The percentage of defects
was found to be slightly higher in the Second Age Group than
in the Entrants and Third Age Groups.
Among the 2,421 children specially examined there were
found 1,318 defects requiring treatment and one hundred and
sixty-nine requiring to be kept under observation.
(a) Malnutrition. Malnutrition was not found to be of
frequent occurrence amongst the children attending the elementary
schools in Wimbledon. Of the 1,999 children examined
during the year as routines twelve were found to be suffering
from malnutrition to such an extent as to require treatment.
This gives an incidence of approximately 6.00 per thousand
inspected. The figure for the previous year was 4.1 per thousand.
Three cases of malnutrition were also found at the routine
inspections where the defect was of a minor degree. These
cases were kept under observation.

The incidence of malnutrition amongst the school children
of the whole of England and Wales for the year 1932 amounted
to 10.7 per thousand inspected as routines. It is thus evident
that the position in Wimbledon as compared with the rest of
the country is very favourable.
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