The Health of School Children Sir George Newman's Annual Report
on health in the schools is more satisfactory than could have been expected. In spite of the wide and • deep depression- in the North of England there has been no appreciable lowering of the standards. Intensive investigation has revealed some lack of proper nourishment in the most afflicted districts, but preventive medicine and more intelligent motherhood have compensated—if we may use the word in a statistical, not a humanitarian, sense—in one direction for what has been lost in another. A particularly interesting part of the Report deals with the need for more dentists. About 58 per cent. of the children- are now receiving treatment. There are about 500 dentists available, but 1,300 are really required to attend to the present school population.
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