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London Education Authority agreed with the Principal School Medical Officers that a
commercial product containing Malathion be used throughout the School Health Service
in the Inner London Area.
This year the number of treatments for'vermin and nits' increased to 1,529 .
The schools principally affected are those with high ratios of immigrant children on
their rolls, some of whom move on before adequate treatment can be completed.
Attendances for treatment of scabies at the bathing centres decreased from 398
last year to 205 in 1971, A combined approach with the co-operat ion of local schools,
general practitioners and the borough cleansing station staff continued during the
year to ensure where possible that al 1 known cases, and their fami 1y and other contacts
are given a complete course of treatment.
HANDICAPPED PUPILS
Every possible care is given to ensure that any child with a handicap which might
affect his or her educational attainment iskept under careful review and consideration,
whether he or she is in an ordinary school or special school, and a register of all
handicapped children is maintained to ensure no child is lost sight of when he/she
moves from school to school or borough to borough.

INFECTIOUS DISEASE IN SCHOOLS
Of the 619 cases of infectious disease notified 218 or 35% related to schoolchildren.
In addition 618 notifications were made by head teachers of pupils absent
from school on account of infectious and other illnesses. Where the notifications from
any particular school warrant further investigation special visits are made and any
necessary investigations carried out, including the taking of specimen s for bacteriological
examination, to ascertain the sources of, and contain, the outbreak.