THE MEDICAL CONGRESS.
CHILDREN’S AILMENTS. By Electric Telegraph —Copyright! Times —Sydney Sun Special Carles. London, August 11. Dr. Newman, chief medical officer of the Board of Education, stated that 50 per cent, of the school children had defective teeth. Ten per cent, had defective vision, 10 per cent, were unclean, 5 per cent, were deaf, 3 per cent, had ear diseases, 5 per cent, adenoids, 1 per cent, ringworms, 2 per cent, (totalling 120,000) had tuberculosis, and 10 per cent, were malnourished. SPECIAL CHURCH SERMONS. , (Received 8.0 a.m.) London, August 11.
Special sermons were preached at Saint Paul’s, Westminster Abbey, and Westminster Cathedral on the responsibility, and influence of the medical profession.
VENEREAL DISEASES
(Received 9.0 a.m.) London, August 11
As the outcome of a circular letter to the newspapers from many eminent medical men appealing for a Royal Commission, on venereal diseases, Mr Asquith announced in the House of Commons that the Government were instructing an inquiry, but the terms and scope of same had not been decided.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVI, Issue 83, 12 August 1913, Page 5
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