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FINDINGS OF MEDICAL INSPECTION.
Malnutrition.— Children found at the routine medical inspections
to lie suffering from malnutrition, in any degree, numbered 595, or
10 per cent. of the children inspected. See Table B, page 43. About
20 per cent. of these children received free milk. In the remainder it
was deemed sufficient to advise parents with regard to the diet of their
children. Such children are periodically re-examined to ascertain their
progress.
Children specially examined in school by the medical officers and
found to be undernourished numbered 197.
At the school clinics 577 children were judged to have nutritional
and kindred defects.
For the children from all sources found to be suffering from malnutrition,
the following provision was made :—
Free Milk 697
Free Milk and Medicinal Foods 28
Medicinal Foods 96
Convalescent Treatment and Medicinal Foods 24
Convalescent Treatment 36
Referred to Hospital or Private Doctor 6
Uncleanliness.—1,060 children were unclean at the time of examination,
equal to 6 per cent. of the children in average attendance at
school. This number corresponds almost exactly with those of 1935.
Minor Ailments and Diseases of the Skin.—In 1935 these accounted
for the ailments of 3.38 per cent. of the children in average attendance.
In 1936 the percentage was 4.13.
Visual Defects and External Eye Diseases.—Whereas in 1935, 1,253
children were found upon medical inspection to suffer from defects
within this category, in 1936 the number was 1,310. Of 795 spectacles
prescribed, 793 were obtained.