MEDICAL INSPECTION OF SCHOOL CHILDREN.
J.AUCKLAND, November 26. Dr Mason, Chief Health Officer, referring to-day to the medical inspection of school children, remarked that its value did not lie in th« detection or in the immediate correction of illness on the part of the children. If the Health Department's scheme was carried out it would enable an estimate of their physical condition to be obtained, and the department would have most valuable data by which it couldmeasure the effect of this condition on tho race, the condition of race existing here, and as to the climate. The influence of living in a one-roomed house was quite different from that of living in a tworoomed house, and the more room people had to live in the better the physical condition of their ohildren. This had , been
T demonstrated at Home, and this *>cirg sC ;j we-were entitled to assume that in a young i country 'ike this we should be able to j collect data Jhat would be of the greatest i value to tiiOß> coming after us > '** :
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Otago Witness, Issue 2803, 4 December 1907, Page 13
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