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Hair. Boys. Girls.
Entering. Leaving. Entering. Leaving.
No. of observations 171 362 125 315
Clean 147 319 72 125
Nitty or (warned 271) 0so ion
Verminous (excluded 391 - 43 - °3 " 190
From the foregoing table it will be seen that 310 of the 973
children examined had nits or vermin in their hair. In 39
instances, the condition was such that it was deemed necessary
to exclude these children from school until the hair had been
cleaned. In three of these 39 cases, it was impossible to get
the parents to cleanse the hair without resorting to prosecution
under the Attendance Acts, when fines were inflicted in each case.
In the remaining 271 instances, the parents were warned as to
the condition, and given instructions as to how to cleanse the hair.
The figures refer to the condition of the hair before the
Health Visitors came on duty, and I am hopeful that I shall be
able to record a considerable reduction in nitty and verminous
conditions among the scholars in future years as a result of their
efforts' in this direction.

'The expression, flea-bitten, refers only to those cases in which the number
of flea bites was very great indeed.
The above results are satisfactory, and are better than have
yet been recorded.