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Height and weight tables have been drawn up, giving the comparative weight indices of over 600 Chinese boys and 350 girls. These numbers are too small to give any conclusive results, but it is shown that Chinese children are below British development and that, from the small numbers (under 100 of each) of British boys and girls examined, those here are above the home rate of growth. Growth seems particularly rapid in British girls of 11 to 13 years of age.
Hygiene teaching is being carried on, and lantern slides have been useful. The lack of any tropical hygiene department in the public Museum here prevents teaching on specimens which would be interesting.
Hygiene has been made a compulsory subject in each year of the three years' Technical Institute training course for teachers.
The control of infectious diseases is difficult as only the British schools have definite regulations as to quarantine of sufferers or contacts.
E. M. MINETT,
Medical Officer for Schools.
M (1) 33
Height and weight tables have been drawn up, giving the comparative weight indices of over 600 Chinese boys and 350 girls. These numbers are too small to give any conclusive results, but it is shown that Chinese children are below British development and that, from the small numbers (under 100 of each) of British boys and girls examined, those here are above the home rate of growth. Growth seems particularly rapid in British girls of 11 to 13 years of age.
Hygiene teaching is being carried on, and lantern slides have been useful. The lack of any tropical hygiene department in the public Museum here prevents teaching on specimens which would be interesting.
Hygiene has been made a compulsory subject in each year of the three years' Technical Institute training course for teachers.
The control of infectious diseases is difficult as only the British schools have definite regulations as to quarantine of sufferers or contacts.
E. M. MINETT,
Medical Officer for Schools.
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