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 for Westminster, City of]
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SCHOOL ROLL—May 1970 | City of Westminster | Inner London Education Authority | |
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21,810 | 1970 423,578 | 1969 421,925 | |
(a) Number examined | 21,283 | 303,077 | 299,878 |
(b) Number (occasions) found verminous | 190 | 4,031 | 2,945 |
(c) Percentage found verminous | 0.89 | 1.33 | 1.01 |
2. Selective Surveys | |||
(a) Number examined | 6,960 | 147,553 | 130,756 |
(b) Number (occasions) found verminous | 151 | 4,508 | 3,763 |
(c) Percentage found verminous | 2.17 | 3.06 | 2.88 |
3. (a) Total times vermin found (1 (b) + 2 (b)) | |||
341 | 8,539 | 6,708 | |
(b) Total percentage found verminous (3 (a) as percentage of 1 (a) + 2 (a)) | 1.21 | 1.89 | 1.59 |
(c) Number of individual pupils found verminous | 170 | 5,511 | 5,062 |
(d) Percentage of individual pupils found verminous (of school roll) | 0.78 | 1.30 | 1.20 |
4. Action taken with verminous cases | |||
(a) Advice and/or Lorexane | 288 | 7,292 | 5,675 |
(b) Further action | 53 | 1,247 | 1,033 |
(c) 4 (b) expressed as a percentage of 4 (a) | 18.40 | 17.10 | 18.20 |
16 | 1,260 | 863 | |
Number of Statutory notices issued | - | - | 15 |
- | - | 15 | |
Compulsorily | - | - | - |
5. Communicable disease surveys Number examined for: | |||
Athlete's foot | 194 | 18,469 | 23,521 |
Plantar Warts | 438 | ||
Dysentery | 890 | 1,811 | |
Other communicable diseases | 113 | 22,026 | 20,056 |
Total of (5) | |||
750 | 41,385 | 45,388 |