Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lewisham Borough]
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Personal Hygiene
The appended table relates to surveys undertaken and also indicates action taken
with verminous cases found as a result of the surveys:
(a) Number examined | 29,379 |
(b) Number (occasions) found verminous | 153 |
(c) Percentage found verminous | 0.52 |
2. Selective Surveys: | |
(a) Number examined | 17,327 |
(b) Number (occasions) found verminous | 348 |
(c) Percentage found verminous | 2.01 |
3. (a) Total times vermin found [l(b)+2(b)] | 501 |
(b) Total % found verminous [3(a) as % of l(a)+2(a)] | 1.07 |
(c) No. of individual pupils found verminous | 372 |
(d) % of individual pupils found verminous (of school roll) | 0.85 |
4. Action taken with verminous cases: | |
(a) Advice and/or Lorexane | 403 |
(b) Further action | 98 |
(c) 4(b) expressed as a percentage of 4(a) | 24.31 |
No. of pupils | 98 |
No. of statutory notices issued | — |
Voluntarily | — |
Compulsorily | — |
Emphasis is placed on children being cleansed by parents at home. Other members
of the family may, in the privacy that the home affords, also use the Lorexane shampoo
hence eradicating a possible source to a child, of recurring infestation.
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