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so that the child, parent or teacher requests examination, would
not play sufficient part in preventive medicine at least insofar as
visual defects are concerned, although a similar pattern of detection
is noted in the statistics for all defects.
Defects treated at Vision Clinics
Defect Number
Error of refraction and squint 3,796
Other eye defects 39
Spectacles ordered 1,189
Findings at Health Surveys
School Roll (20.1.66)—37,502
1. Comprehensive surveys
(a) Number examined 28,109
(b) Number (occasions) found verminous 138
(c) Percentage found verminous 0.49
2. Selective surveys
(a) Number examined 25,026
(b) Number (occasions) found verminous 399
(c) Percentage found verminous 1.59
3. Verminous cases
(a) Total times vermin found 537
(b) Total percentage found verminous 1.0
(c) Number of individual pupils found
verminous 268
(d) Percentage of individual pupils found
verminous (of School Roll) 0.71
4. Action taken with verminous cases
(a) Advice and/or Lorexane 398
(b) Further action 139
(c) Percentage of cases given advice and/or
Lorexane requiring further action 34.9
Voluntary attendances at bathing centres:
Number of pupils 139
Number of statutory notices issued —
5. Communicable disease surveys:
Numbers examined for:
Athlete's foot 3,451
Plantar warts 3,097
Dysentery 345
Other communicable diseases 4,370
11,263