SCHOOLGIRLS SLIMMING
Sir Frederick Menzies, London County Council medical officer of health, is quoted by Dr. Arthur MacNalty, chief medical officer of the Board of Education, in his report for 1934. as having written: "In the elementary schools givls at each age are better nourished than boys, but in the secondary schools, while only 4.8 per cent, of the boys are reported as subnormal, among fiirls 6 per cent, arc so returned.
"The figures suggest that the prevailing sentiment in favour of '.slimming' afTcrts the question."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 36, 12 February 1936, Page 17
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