MEDICAL INSPECTION OF SCHOOLS 



TABLE 25. DEFECTS REPORTED AND THE NUMBER AND PER CENT 

 OF THESE DEFECTS TREATED, IN FOUR CITIES 



Several other cities report the number of children given 

 remedial treatment, rather than the number of defects remedied. 

 These figures reduced to percentages for three cities are as follows: 



St. Louis, Mo., 1909-10 . 

 Trenton, N. J., 1909 

 Oakland, Cal., 1910-11 . 



24 per cent 

 39 per cent 

 52 per cent 



As has been noted, statements as to improvement resulting 

 from treatment are rare. In Trenton, according to the report 

 referred to above, 172 out of the 190 children treated were "im- 

 proved/' Our ignorance as to kinds of defects included, nature 

 of treatment, and standards by which improvement was judged, 

 makes the statement of slight value. 



TREATMENT BY PHYSICIANS AND INSTITUTIONS 

 Statements with regard to the agency from which treatment 

 was obtained are made by two cities New York and St. Louis. 

 Those for New York are as follows: 



TABLE 26. CASES OF PHYSICAL DEFECTS TREATED BY PRIVATE 

 PRACTITIONERS AND BY INSTITUTIONS, NEW YORK, 191 I 



