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increase the use made of the School Canteens during the present
emergency.

The greatly increased number of notifications during 1942 was
due almost entirely to the widespread prevalence of Chicken¬pox
and Mumps, which together accounted for over three hundred
notifications.
SCABIES.
The 29 cases of skin infections shewn in the table given above
included a small number of cases of Scabies. These were notified
from the schools, but a very much larger number were found at
medical inspections or at the School Clinic, and it became evident
early in the year that in Wood Green, as in most other districts,
there was a very marked increase in the incidence of Scabies. With
the consent of the Civil Defence Committee a Scabies Cleansing
Station was established at the First Aid Post in White Hart Lane
School, where treatment of all mothers and children found to be
suffering from Scabies has been carried out by the Nursing Staff of
the First Aid Post. From March to the end of the year, 282 cases
in all were treated at the Aid Post, 166 of whom were school children.
The preparation used for treatment has been Benzyl Benzoate
Emulsion, which has given very good results. and the routine
treatment now carried out is to give the patient a hot bath with
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