Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report of the Medical Officer of Health
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Table 46 — School Health Service — Findings at Health Surveys 1972
City of Westminster | Inner London Education Authority | ||
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1972 | 1971 | ||
SCHOOL ROLL - May | 21,377 | 423,992 | 424,890 |
1. Comprehensive Surveys | |||
(a) Number examined | 14,558 | 321,727 | 304,431 |
(b) Number (occasions) found verminous | 268 | 5,847 | 4,994 |
(c) Percentage found verminous | 1.84 | 1.82 | 1.64 |
2. Selective Surveys | |||
(a) Number examined | 5,420 | 162,175 | 145,573 |
(b) Number (occasions) found verminous | 238 | 6,317 | 5,771 |
(c) Percentage found verminous | 4.39 | 3.90 | 3.96 |
3 (a) Total times vermin found (1 (b) + 2 (b)) | 506 | 12,164 | 10,765 |
(b) Total percentage found verminous (3 (a) as percentage of 1 (a) + 2 (a)) | 2.53 | 2.51 | 2.39 |
(c) Number of individual pupils found verminous | 337 | 7,733 | 7,053 |
(d) Percentage of individual pupils found verminous (of school roll) | 1.58 | 1.82 | 1.66 |
4. Action taken with verminous cases | |||
(a) Advice and/or Lorexane | 467 | 9,755 | 8,844 |
(b) Further action | 39 | 2,409 | 1,924 |
(c) 4 (b) expressed as a percentage of 4 (a) | 8.35 | 24.70 | 21.72 |
Analysis of 4 lb) cases — referrals of hardcore cases to bathing centres | |||
Voluntary attendance at bathing centres Number of pupils | 355 | 2,609 | 1,737 |
Number of Statutory notices issued | — | — | — |
Number cleansed at centres following statutory notices | |||
Voluntarily | — | — | — |
Compulsorily | — | — | — |
5. Communicable disease surveys | |||
Number examined for: | |||
Athlete's foot | — | 18,352 | 21.807 |
Plantar Warts | — | ||
Dysentery | — | 36 | 90 |
Other communicable diseases | 68 | 19,575 | 17,239 |
Totals of (5) | 68 | 37,963 | 39,136 |