The child at school : being chapters on the medical superintendence of growth / by Sir Leslie Mackenzie.

  • Leslie Mackenzie
Date:
1926
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Credit: The child at school : being chapters on the medical superintendence of growth / by Sir Leslie Mackenzie. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    inspector of physical education to the Scottish Education Department, compiled, from the official reports, some groups of facts to show the typical condition of children at the age of entering school. In his compilation he chose five representative towns and eight represen- tative counties. On this wide basis he was able to frame a reliable estimate of the inci- dence of defect and disease among the 82,000 (approximately) school entrants examined annually. The figures cannot be taken as constant, for, in the course of the years, many of the conditions vanish under inspection. But some of the groups of disease probably do not yet vary much in amount from year to year. Dr. Cruickshank, from the few selected reports, concluded that at least 42*5 per cent, of the children entering school suffer from diseases that are largely preventable. If to those figures are added the number suffering from defective teeth (70 per cent.), the total exceeds 100, showing that the actual number of defects discovered considerably exceeds the number of children examined. This is common in the experience of medical inspectors. Many of the children suffer from more than one defect. Most commonly, defective teeth are found combined with some other defect. Of
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