A TERRIBLE RECORD.
PHYSICAL STATE OF ENGLISH
SCHOOL CHILDREN
("Times :, -Sjdn«y "Sun" Special Cable."*
LONDON, December. 22
Dr. Newman, chief medical officer of the Education Board, reports that of six millions of school children examined, 10 per cent, possessed defective eyesight, 2 per cent, defective hearing, 2 .per cent, suppurating ears, 10 per cent, adenoids, 1 per cent, ringworm, 1 per cont. tuberculosis, 3o per cent, heart disease, over 50 per cent, required the dentist, and over half a million were.physically undermined owing to malnutrition.
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Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14857, 24 December 1913, Page 11
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85A TERRIBLE RECORD. Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 14857, 24 December 1913, Page 11
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