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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Croydon 1921

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]

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Appendix A.

Table: E.-Treatment of Uncleanliness.

E.-Treatment of Uncleanliness.

(a) Average number of visits per annum made by the School Nurses to each school1
(b) Total number of examinations made of children by School Nurses in the year in the schools16817
(c) The number of individual children found uncleanNits1940
Head Vermin278
•Body ,,9
Total2227
(d) Arrangements made by the Local Authority for cleansing, and the number of children cleansed under these arrangementsAt Cleansing Station, Lane, Croydon. Body VerminFactory 8
Total8
(e) Legal proceedings taken under the Children Act 1908, or the School Attendance Bye-laws-