HEALTH OF CHILDREN
AN ALARMING REPORT. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright Times—Sydney -Sim" Special Cables.) LONDON, December 22. Sir George Newman, chief medical officer of the Education Board, reports that of six million 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 cent, tuberculosis, 86 por cent, heart disease, and over 60 per cent, requiring a dentist. Half a million were physically undermined owing to malnutrition.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8612, 24 December 1913, Page 5
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84HEALTH OF CHILDREN New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8612, 24 December 1913, Page 5
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