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THE INSTITUTE'S ENQUIRIES
CINEMA AND FATIGUE
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BODILY FATIGUE
Out of the 19,661 total or partial replies to the questions addressed to children on the subject of fatigue as a result of cinema projections, an appreciable number — 2831 = 1444 % — mention the phenomenon of bodily fatigue.
The figures are as follows:
Large towns
Boys
I5I8
16.44%
Girls
947
17-17 %
Smaller localities Boys Girls
2l6
6.68%
150 8.92 %
Compared with the 6490 children who complain of more or less regular visual trouble, the number of those who suffer bodily fatigue is small. The following are the deductions that may be made from the above figures:
on the average, girls experience physical fatigue in a noticeably larger proportion of cases than boys;
taking large towns and smaller localities separately, this disproportion between boys and girls persists. Both sexes, however, suffer far more in large towns than in the smaller localities ■■• (16.72 % compared with
745 %)•
A study of the replies suggests a further observation. Whereas in the case of visual fatigue, the highest proportion of complaints came from vocational and technical schools, in the case of bodily fatigue, there is no substantial difference between the figures and percentages for the different types of school.
As regards the age at which the phenomenon is first or more acutely felt, about two-thirds of all the boys confessing to fatigue were 13 or over. In the case of girls the corresponding age was the period of adolescence (three-fifths of the affirmative replies). Very few little girls below the age of adolescence complain of physical fatigue; quite naturally, the phenomenon follows in most cases the normal development of the organism.
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