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by the Health Visitors, and infested school children, together
with their contacts of pre-school age, have been
followed up in the home.
Facilities for cleansing at the Council's Medicinal Baths
have been made available in all cases and the opportunity
given to purchase at cost price special combs.
Figures showing the number of cases dealt with at the
Baths during the year are as under:—
School Children—Hammersmith.
Scabies 1,468
Verminous 1,476
Impetigo 34
School Children—Non-Hammersmith.
Nil.
Children under Five Years—Hammersmith.
Scabies 518
Verminous 68
Impetigo 8
Other Conditions 1
Children under Five Years—Non-Hammersmith.
Nil.
Adults—Hammersmith.
Scabies 2,247
Verminous 181
Impetigo 8
Adults—Non-Hammersmith.
Nil
Lodging-houses.
Scabies 13
Verminous 234
VACCINATION.
The duties under the Vaccination Acts and the Vaccination
Order were carried out by the Public Health Department.
The Return for 1945 shows that 2,636 Infants were
vaccinated, this being 74.83 per cent, of the Births compared
with 67.51 per cent, in 1944.
No proceedings under the Vaccination Acts were instituted.