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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

Tower Hamlets 1965

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Tower Hamlets, London Borough]

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Table: TABLE 62 FINDINGS AT HEALTH SURVEYS

TABLE 62 FINDINGS AT HEALTH SURVEYS

School Roll - 20c I,6634,044
1.Comprehensive Surveys
(a) Number examined21, 563
(b) Number (occasions) found verminous550
(c) Percentage found verminous2. 55
2.Selective Surveys
(a) Number examined7,818
(b) Number (occasions)found verminous583
(c) Percentage found verminous7.46
(a) Total times vermin found1,133
(b) Total percentage found verminous3. 86
(c) No. of individual pupils found verminous780
(d) Percentage of individual pupils found verminous (of school roll)2.29
3.Action taken with verminous cases
(a) Advice and/or Lorexane992
(b) Further action141
(c) 3(b) expressed as a percentage of 3(a)14.2
Analysis of 3(b) cases - referrals of hardcore cases
to bathing centres
Voluntary attendances at bathing centres
No. of pupils140
No. of statutory notices issued1
No., cleansed at centres following statutory notices
Voluntarily1
Compulsorily
Communicable Disease Surveys
Number examined for:
Athlete's foot1, 741
Plantar Warts2,816
Dysentery-
Other communicable diseases21