CHILDREN'S AILMENTS.
EXAMINATION BY EXPERTS* STARTLING FIGURES. Received July 15, 9.10 a.m. By Tolcgrnph.—Press Association. —-Oniiyrißlit London, Yesterday. Mr Walter Runciman, President of the Board of Education, said that the medical inspection of 2,0000,00 school children showed the following percentages:—Ten per cent, had defectite sight;twenty to forty per cent were in urgent need of dentists; three to five per cent, had defective hearing; eight per cent, had enlarged tonsils; one to four per cent. Buffered from tuberculosis; and ono per cent, from heart disease.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 378, 15 July 1911, Page 5
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84CHILDREN'S AILMENTS. King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 378, 15 July 1911, Page 5
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