HEALTH OF CHILDREN.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19412, 21 August 1926, Page 11

HEALTH OF CHILDREN.

ADENOIDS AND TONSILS. BENEFITS OF / TREATMENT, j , [BY TIILBGBAEJI.—OWN CHRISTCHUECH, Fridsj. Tlie health 'of .children attending primary tichools ,ss .slffectcd hy; and tonsils was, the'subject of -a lecture by Di-. -X IX' Pullon given heforeX.the Canterbury School -Committees', Asspciation. . . i Dr. Pullon said itdenoids ,wepe, common in a climate like'the.pan* " terbury' climate. The trouble usually deye!oped between the ages of three years and about IS years and was most common between six and 15 years. Disease that favoured catarrh would favoiir the development of adenoids. -Iraperfeibt respiration in'a growing' child had an 'effect' on tlie development of the chest. As a result of lack of proper respiration a child became stunted,- dull and apathetic. The removal of adenoids sometimes resulted in the patient showing much brilliance at school. "tonsils were the. first line of defence in the throat against germs. It was not necessary to remove tonsils simply because they were large. It was not a question of the tiJia of tonsils, but of what tipy were doing. Methods of. operating had jmproved greatly in recent years. • f "If people realised that inflammation may be the beginning of a large number of other diseases, such as rheumatism," concluded Dr. Pullon, " parents would bn only too pleased at inspections .of, edtj-... dren by school doctors and by. gr,ac];ittoners, who would femove tonsils them removed hv tainlv was somo connection between; infection of tho tonsils and-goitre. . There • was no direct relationship, :but veryoften, they went together. , > j|W . 1