"School" lateral curvature / by Henry O. Feiss.

  • Feiss, Henry O.
Date:
[1905?]
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Credit: "School" lateral curvature / by Henry O. Feiss. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    reason why certain physicians have not recognized school scolio- sis is because they have only come in contact. with such fully developed stages as would naturally appear in orthopedic insti- tutes and hospitals, such as the rachitic and the paralytic types. These physicians, however, base their statistics on their own experience, not recognizing the fact that enormous numbers of children supposed to be well-formed, but who are not necessarily so, have not come under their notice. Therefore, he thinks the proper way to look into the question is to examine the children in school and to see how many are really scoliotic. He examined 2314 school children and found 571, or 24.67%, of these had tateral curvature. To be sure, the great majority of these did 1ot show any marked degree but there certainly was this marked percentage of deformity. As to the frequency of the scoliosis in the two sexes, he found them equally divided. This differs from the statistics in orthopedic institutions in which, figuring on nine different sets of statistics, the result was 85.8% scoliosis in girls and 14.2% in bovs. The reason this is mentioned is to show that the sta- tistics in orthopedic institutions differ from those based on school children. Krug in Dresden found results similar to Schoider in Lausanne. ; In Scholder’s 571 casés he fourid the great majority had a left curve and Krug’s statistics show about the same. Scholder believes this tendency to a left sided lateral curvature is alore a sufficient argument that school is a determining factor in the formation of scoliosis, for such a lateral curvature corresponds to the faulty attitude ustially assumed by children in sitting. The author we have quoted gives another set of statistics for the separate classes, and found practically a steadily increasing percentage of scoliosis. This again is an argument that there is a “school” scoliosis for it shows that the children who have been longest in school have the greatest percentage of lateral curvature. th class, 218 children, 19 cases of scoliosis— 8.7%, myopia in 3. % ieee 25% : 47 a % 18.2% 4.5% Sth. * 408 eK 81 me Ks 19.8% se 5.2% 4th “ 404 - 110 a a 2 Uo ty 6. % 3a 0ClC<( «OO BO es 105 i “4 28.3% i 8.5% Sim = 6“ 354 115 5 : 32.4% - 19.4% 1st “- 304 g 94 cs Ms 31.9% % 19.4% This table shows besides the percentage of increase in scolic- sis, a similar increase in myopia.
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