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requiring to be kept under observation. In other words,
1.36% of the children examined in the schools were found to
be suffering from defective hearing or from discharging ears.
Furthermore, thirteen children with defective hearing, fiftynine
with otitis media, and seventy-seven with other ear
diseases, all requiring treatment, were examined as special
cases at the Health Centre.
(g) Dental Defects. At the routine inspections by the
medical officer two hundred and four children, or 11.56% of
the children examined, were found to have dental caries to
such an extent as to require treatment. During the year 1937
the percentage was 10.48.
Amongst the 3,187 children who attended the Health
Centre as special cases, thirty-one were found to be suffering
from dental defects requiring treatment.
(h) Orthopaedic and Postural Defects. At the routine
inspections eleven cases of deformity due to previous rickets
were discovered. Three of these cases required treatment and
eight required to be kept under observation. In addition there
were three cases of spinal curvature requiring to be kept
under observation. There were also thirty-two other cases of
orthopædic and postural defects, twenty-one of which required
treatment and eleven required to be kept under observation.
At the special inspections at the Health Centre one case
of deformity due to previous rickets and two cases of spinal
curvature were detected, all requiring treatment. Twenty-six
other cases of orthopaedic and postural defects were found at
these inspections, twenty-five of which were referred to the
Orthopaedic Clinic and one kept under observation.
The conditions found at the routine and special inspections,
and classified under " other deformities," were due to
flat foot, knock knee, congenital deformities, deformities due
to old injuries, etc.
(i) Heart Disease and Rheumatism. Particulars regarding
children suffering from heart defects at the routine and
special inspections are shown in Table II.
Among the routines, ten children with organic disease of
the heart requiring treatment and one child in which the
condition was quiescent and required to be kept under observation,
were found. There were two children with chorea, one
requiring treatment and one requiring to be kept under
observation. Ten children with functional heart disease were
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