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T - Treatment O - Observation .
(A child can be noted for more than one defect)
Vision.
The following table is a statement of the visual acuity of pupils whose vision was tested
at routine medical inspections divided into those not wearing and wearing glasses, together
with the proportion noted for treatment or observation.

Personal Hygiene.
The hygiene inspection of each child once a term was replaced in January 1959 by an
annual comprehensive health survey of each pupil, plus such additional health surveys as may be
thought necessary or desirable at selected individual schools or departments. Details of the work
done under the cleansing scheme are shown below. The emphasis of the cleansing scheme as
now carried out is on the children being cleansed by the parent at home where other verminous
members of the family may, in the privacy that the home affords, also use the Lorexane No.3
shampoo distributed by the school nursing department, hence eradicating a possible source to
the child of recurring infestation.
It is the practice for the school nurse to visit families with a record of infestation prior
to the commencement of school term to ensure that the children are clean and fit to return to
school. This practice has proved to be of considerable value.

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