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under school age, were given medicated baths at the Disinfecting Station,
which necessitated their making 397 attendances.
Notices from the London County Council in regard to school children
affected with vermin numbered 297, and the Disinfecting Superintendent
and the Sanitary Inspectors paid 512 visits of investigation to their homes.
By agreement with the London County Council, arrangements are in
force for the treatment at the Westminster Disinfecting Station of school
children from the boroughs of Battersea, Chelsea, Holborn, Kensington,
Lambeth, Paddington, St. Pancras, St. Marylebone, Fulham, and the
City of London.
There were among Westminster children, 611 cases of head lice treated,
35 of scabies, but no cases of body lice. In all these cases the clothing was
disinfected together with the bedding from their homes, amounting in all to
937 articles. Children from the above-mentioned boroughs treated for
similar conditions were as follows : 364 for head lice, 4 for body lice and
17 for scabies. The number of attendances of these children for baths
at the station was 1,237.
The following table shows the total number of individuals treated
at the station for verminous conditions

* One was under school age.
All the lice and scabies cases were dealt with at the station.

* School books, 10; library books, 30; private books, 13.
The motor van during 1928 ran 3,901 miles and carried 2,275 cwt. of
goods, the highest amount in any one day being 35 cwt. The petrol
consumption was 457 gallons, equal to 8.5 miles per gallon.
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