RHEUMATIC CHILDREN

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 246, 7 January 1928, Page 24

RHEUMATIC CHILDREN

10,000 LONDON SUFFERERS A good deal of research recently been carried out in cot* . with the subject of rheumatism rheumatic infection in children, the London Board of Educatio frequentlv called attention to portant place that rheumatism copies among the diseases of schoo One difficulty seems to be the 1 a clear definition as to what eluded in the term rheumatism a tinct from acute rheumatic *®'* cr * Rheumatic infection is £ recognised until the heart **** affected, but Dr. Menzies, of tn c -gj don County Council, computes there are in the London areas than 10,000 children who have jsun« or who are suffering from rh€ “ Wrtl symptoms and that 600-700 cn are absent from school for long on that account. This represen per cent, of the chronic invan among children. Even where n finite rheumatic seen, children are often in a cn _ state of ill-health, anaemic ano nourished. They attend school until bad or some other circumstance posing to a breakdown makes disease manifest. Damp c»r wet wet clothing, accompanied * - t atmosphere in the school, lack suitable midday meal, lack of the home, improper nutrition -jg. things minister to the growth o» matism. Systematic treatment of the teeth, nose and tn will help to diminish the rheumatism, but cannot be ep effective while the child is 5U f an environment that is favouraW* the disease.