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Tooth brushes can be bought for a penny or twopence,
and the importance of having a separate tooth brush for each
person is a point which inquiries show must not be forgotten.
NOSE AND THROAT.
Tonsils and Adenoids requiring treatment were found in
2.7 per cent. of the older boys, in 4.4 per cent. of the older girls,
and in 6.0 per cent. of the infants who underwent routine
inspection.
In the children presented to us by Teachers as mouth
breathers many bad cases of enlarged tonsils and adenoidswere
found, whilst in others, the mouth breathing was not
due to any blocking of the posterior nasal passages by
adenoid growths, but to habit, or blocking caused by lack of the
use of a handkerchief. It has been gratifying to find in many
cases where mouth breathing was due to habit that careful
attention by teachers and parents has resulted in the proper
function of the nose being re-established, and any tendency
to adenoid formation prevented.
Deafness is a defect the importance of which it is hard to
get parents to realize; so many of them are "hard of hearing"
themselves and accept such conditions in their children as
a matter of "heredity," when an operation tor the removal of
large tonsils and adenoids may entirely remedy the condition.
DEFECTIVE SPEECH.
The figures for this year again show that stammering
or stuttering is far more prevalent among boys than girls.