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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Hammersmith 1965
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hammersmith Borough]
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| 2. Selective Surveys (a) Number examined | 15,398 |
| (b) No. (occasions) found verminous | 376 |
| (c) Percentage found verminous | 2.44 |
| 3. (a) Total times vermin found (1 (b) + 2 (b)) | 537 |
| (b) Total % found verminous (3 (a) as % of 1 (a) + 2 (a)) | 1.35 |
| (c) Number of individual pupils found verminous | 199 |
| (d) % of individual pupils found verminous (of school roll) | 0.76 |
| 4. Action taken with verminous cases - | |
| (a) Advice and/or Lorexane | 463 |
| (b) Further action | 74 |
| (c) 4 (b) expressed as a % of 4 (a) | 16.0 |
| Analysis of 4 (b) cases - referrals of hardcore cases to bathing centres | |
| Voluntary attendance at bathing centres -Number of pupils | 74 |
| Number of statutory notices issued | - |
| Number cleansed at centres following statutory notices | |
| Voluntarily | _ |
| Compulsorily | - |
| 5. Communicable Disease Surveys | |
| Number examined for - Athlete's Foot | 469 |
| Plantar Warts | 383 |
| Dysentery | 34 |
| Other communicable diseases | 4,019 |
| Total of (5) | 4,905 |
Employment of School Children.
Medical examinations were carried out on 219 children with a view to the issue of employment
certificates.
Infectious Diseases in Schools.
When a pupil is absent from school and the cause is either known or suspected to be due
to infectious disease, the head of the school notifies the Principal School Medical Officer.
These notifications are uncorrected for diagnosis but form the best available index of the trend
of the infectious disease in the school community; they are the only figures available in respect
of diseases which are not statutorily notifiable. The following table appertains to the infectious
diseases notified by heads of schools in 1965.
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