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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

Lewisham 1971

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Lewisham Borough]

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Personal Hygiene
The appended table relates to surveys undertaken and also indicates action taken
with verminous cases found as a result of the surveys:

Table: Table 24

Table 24

1. Comprehensive Surveys:
(a) Number examined22,943
(b) Number (occasions) found verminous85
(c) Percentage found verminous0.37
2. Selective Surveys :
(a) Number examined18,115
(b) Number (occasions) found verminous306
(c) Percentage found verminous1.69
3. (a) Total times vermin found [l(b) + 2(b)]391
(b) Total percentage found verminous [3(a) as percentage of l(a) + 2(a)]0.95
(c) Number of individual pupils found verminous331
(d) Percentage of individual pupils found verminous (of school roll)0.81
4. Action taken with verminous cases:
(a) Advice and/or Lorexane355
(b) Further action36
(c) 4(b) expressed as a percentage of 4{a)10.14
Analysis of 4(b) cases—referrals of hardcore cases to bathing centres
Voluntary attendances at bathing centres :
Number of pupils36
Number of statutory notices issued—
Number cleansed at centres following statutory notices:
Voluntarily—
Compulsorily

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Emphasis is placed on children being cleansed by parents at home. Other
members of the family may, in the privacy that the home affords, also use the
Lorexane shampoo, hence eradicating a possible source to a child of recurring
infestation.
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