HC Deb 17 June 1937 vol 325 cc545-6
34. Mr. David Adams

asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Board of Education the total number of school children medically examined in the County of Durham to the last available date, and the total found defective, with particulars of the same?

Mr. Lindsay

The total number of public elementary school children submitted during the year 1936 to routine medical inspection, as distinct from special inspections and re-examinations, in the administrative County of Durham was 37,118. Of these, 7,805 were found to require treatment for defects other than defects of nutrition, uncleanliness and dental diseases. A full analysis of the defects found cannot be given within the scope of an oral answer, but the two largest groups were defective vision and chronic tonsillitis and adenoids, which between them accounted for 6,306 out of a total of 8,818 defects requiring treatment.

Mr. Adams

Can the hon. Member give the figures relating to nutritional defects?

Mr. Lindsay

I should like to look into that point. I cannot give the facts without some detail.