[Evaluation of school children's health status in Lublin during the years 1969-1988]

The research has been carried out in the primary schools of Lublin. The state of health of children and youth has been evaluated in the course of 20 years. Together there have been analyzed 48,416 (28.7%) health cards of children classified to dispensary groups. The total number of children and youth in primary schools is 168,614. There has been found: a) an increase in the number of children suffering from sight disorders on the average by 3% each 5 years; b) a considerable increase (71.2%) in locomotive organ diseases; c) the least number of children and youth classified to dispensary groups was in the years 1974-1975 (25.3%) and in 1979-1980 (24.41%) in comparison with the earlier years 1969-1970 (31.15%) and the later ones 1984-1985 (32.49%) and 1987-1988 (29.99%).