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Show MANY CHILDREN DEFICIENT. Dr. William H. Allen has been conducting con-ducting examinations of school children in New York on behalf of the Association Associa-tion for Improving the Condition of the Poor. According to Dr. Allen two-thirds of the school children in the poor districts dis-tricts are mentally incapacitated because be-cause of critical ailments. "We have examined 97,000 children," he says, "and two-thirds of these are physically unfit for the educational advantages they receive. Twenty-nine per cent of this number are afflicted with eye trou' ble and the remainder have enlarged nostrils and unbealthiness in the or-gans or-gans of hearing." |