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GOVERNMENT EVACUATION SCHEME - RETURN OF CHILDREN FROM
RESIDENTIAL NURSERIES (Counted)
The Government arranged for the provision of bedding, cots and small
beds where necessary for the returning children, either on free or at reduced
cost. Twelve families availed themselves of this arrangement,
INSULIN TREATMENT AND DIABETIC PATIENTS
During the year the Council provided, free of charge, insulin treatment
for two diabetic patients in the City at a cost of £13, 6. 6d.
DISINFESTION - Head Lice, Body Lice, Scabies
The number of persons treated during the year at the Disinfecting Station
for head lice, body lice or scabies wore-
Children 548
Adults 939
Total 1,397
Number of treatments given- 2,247
The proposed extension of the Disinfecting Station to meet the increasing
needs of the service and particularly to provide a greater degree of privacy for
women and girls has not yet been effected because of other priorities. Requests
for the disinfe3tation of military personnel have, owing to demobilisation, been
becoming fewer. With the return of the children and re-opening of schools, the
numbers cleansed are greater than during the war. Notifications under the Scabies
Order, 1941, were fewer. No occasion arose for the service of a formal notice
on any person. Personal visits in the case of women and children by the woman
Sanitary Inspector after notification, succeeded in securing treatment for the
patients, while all contacts were carefully examined. The Council employs a
trained nurse to supervise all the work of disinfestation of women 'and. children.
Schoolchildren are dealt with by the school nurses, but co-ordination between
the staff of the City Council and those of the London County Council is very
satisfactory so that families cm be dealt with at one time.
The Health Visitors have continued to give the. subject of personal
hygiene, including the infestation by head lice, special observation and
instruction both in the home and at the Centres, where necessary suitable
combs for use at home have been supplied.
It is noteworthy that the existence of the Scabies Order has created a
wider interest among medical practitioners, hospital authorities and social
workers in infestation and thei increasing co-operation in referring cases and
in methods of prevention's of undoubted benefit to the community.
DISINFESTATION OF PREMISES
Tie cyanide treatment of furniture and effects of families to be
rehoused has been resumed but not on the routine scale carried out before the
war owing to labour shortage. Occupied rooms are disinfested by spray methods,
insecticides containing D.D.T. being found effective. The bedding and other
fabrics are submitted to steam disinfection. Fifty' five cases wore dealt with
in this manner luring the year.