SCHOOL CHILDREN.
• • - • - ' • -7.. " • . - ' AND THEIR AILMENTS. :'Titiles''Sydney Stun' Special Cables* :(Received' lid&'t Night, 6.30 o'clock.) . * IXJNDON, August 11. " Dr Newman, Chief Medical Officer to the Board pf Education, stated at the Medical Congress, that fifty per cent-of -the children had defective teeth; ten per cent had defective vision; ten per cent were unclean ; five per cent were deaf; three per cent" had ear diseases; five per cent adenoids; and one per cent ringworm. Two per cent of a total of 120,000 children suffered from tuberculosis while ten per cent suffered from want of nourishment.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 12 August 1913, Page 5
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94SCHOOL CHILDREN. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 12 August 1913, Page 5
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