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The work undertaken by the school nurses, in addition to followingup
at the homes of scholars, includes attendance with doctors at medical
inspections and clinics, general cleanliness inspections in the schools,
bathing scabies cases and cleansing verminous children.
In connection with these duties 3,664 homes were visited, 786 attendances
were made at clinics, and 1,492 school attendances were made
for the purpose of medical inspection and cleanliness surveys.
INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
Considerable loss of school attendance annually occurs, especially in
the infants' departments, owing to measles, whooping cough, chicken-pox
and mumps, and in order to keep a check upon the incidence of these
conditions in school children, an arrangement exists by which the head
teachers are able to keep the Health Department informed of the weekly
absences due to infectious diseases. The information supplied by the
head teachers includes the names and addresses of the children, thus
enabling the nursing staff to visit the homes. When it is considered
advisable or necessary, a general survey is made of all the scholars
attending particular classes with a view to discovering newly attacked
or missed cases.