CHILD NUTRITION IMPROVES
"The Health of the School Child" is the subject of a report by Sir Arthur MacNalty, chief medical officer of the British Ministry of Education. During the year 1,674,023 children were assessed at routine medical inspections in respect of their nutritive state, states the report. Of these. 14.5 per cent, were found to be excellent, 74.2 per cent, normal. 10.8 per cent, slightly sub-normal, and 0.5 per cent. bad. Of the children examined at the last routine inspection of their school life 16.6 per cent, were excellent. The steady and gratifying increases in the table of average heights and weights which are shown in nearly all the many reports from school medical officers in which such.tables are given are striking evidence of the improvement in the nutrition of the school child in the United Kingdom as a whole.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24297, 14 May 1940, Page 10
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