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'Times'—'Sydney Sun* Special Cabh (Received Dec. 23, 8.30 a.m.) LONDON, Dec. 22. Sir George Newman, chief medical officer of the Education, Board, reports that of six million school children' examined 10 per cen/t, possessed defective eyesight,; 2 per cent, defective hearing, 2, per cent. §ypptirating ears, 10 per cent. - adenoids, 1 per cent, ringworm, 1 per cent, tuberculosis, 35 per cent. Heart disease, and over 50 per cent, requiring a dentist, > Half a million were physically undermined owing to mabiutritiota.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 24 December 1913, Page 5
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