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Booking at Moutrie's and Lyceum Theatre. hardly noticeable, Boys More Liable to Be Ill Than Girls Schools' Epidemics Report Tonsils Removal "Doubts"
The practice of removing children's tonsils on slight excuse is regarded as of very doubtful justification in a report on "Epidemics in School," issued on April 7 by the Schools Epi-domic Committee of the Medical Research Council, states the "Daily Telegraph and Morning Post."
The report embodies the results of collecting records of sickness in 31 public schools—21 boys' schools and 10 girls' schools—during five year:
At the beginning of the inquiry i 1930 more than half the boys and nearly half the girls had had their tonsils removed. By the end of 1934 these proportions had increased by nearly 6 and 7 per cent. respectively. The report says:
"It was important to discover, if possible, whether this mass attack on one of the normal structures of the body was justified. We studied the incidence of various infections, such as influenza, colds, sore throat, in boys and girls with and without tonsils, and found no significant difference in the attack rates on the two groups, and certainly no evidence that operations resulted in a diminished incidence of the infections under discussion The committee admits the value of the operation in carefully selected cases, but it adds: "We have grave doubts whether the majority of operations are the result of true di crimination rather than of routine ritual.
The incidence of serious illness was found to be considerably higher among boys than among girls. Appendicitis was the only major malady that affected girls more—50 per cent. more cases and 10 per cent more operations. Boys suffered twice as frequently as girls from disease of the middle ear, 2% tim as frequently from pneumonia, and 11 times as frequently from acute rheumatism.
On the other hand, the incidence f influenza was virtually equal for while the attack rate for colds, sore throats and chills was higher for girls than for boys. he committee believes that the higher incidence of minor respiratory illness among girls is only apparent, and that the larger figures for girls are due to their being subjected to stricter surveillance than boys, and for that reason more likely to be kept from school.
This, too, may in part account for the lower incidence of serious in-factions among girls. Also, it is pointed out, there is probably less close tact in girls' schools, where sleeping accommodation usually in he form of cubicles bed-rooms, while boys generally sleep in large, open dormitories, The difference in incidence may, however, be a real} sex difference.
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