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Personal Hygiene
An annual comprehensive survey of each pupil is carried out together with
such additional health surveys as are 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
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 and thus eradicating a possible source of recurring infestation
to the child.
It is the practice for the school nurse, prior to the commencement of
school term, to visit families with a record of infestation to ensure that
the children are clean and fit to return to school. This practice has
continued to be of considerable value.

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