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94
a child attending three courses of treatment during the year counts
as three cases). These figures include not only schoolchildren
referred after a health survey, but also those attending on their
own initiative.
Vermin
Cases treated 409
Treatments given658
Scabies
Cases treated 61
Impetigo
Cases treated 1
Infectious illness reported from schools
Chicken-pox 611
Dysentery, diarrhoea or enteritis 92
Food poisoning 1
German measles 236
Glandular fever 4
Impetigo 9
Influenza 53
Jaundice 27
Measles 432
Mumps 709
Ophthalmia and conjunctivitis 17
Pneumonia 1
Rheumatic fever 1
Ringworm (scalp) 2
Ringworm (body) 6
Scabies 13
Scarlet fever 44
Sore throat
A close watch is maintained on the incidence of infectious
disease, particularly Sonne dysentery. Although not usually
serious, this disease requires rapid application of control measures.
In this context, I am indebted to the teaching staff for supplying
early information about illness in the schools and to the general
practitioners, medical officers, public health inspectors and health
visitors for co-ordinating the investigation and management of
cases and contacts.