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100
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 320
Total attendances 329
Scabies
Cases treated 116
Total attendances 289
Impetigo
Cases treated Nil
Infectious illness reported from schools
Chicken-pox 699
Dysentery, diarrhoea or enteritis 67
German measles 194
Glandular fever 5
Impetigo 17
Influenza 9
Jaundice 42
Measles 842
Mumps 590
Ophthalmia and conjunctivitis 19
Pneumonia 2
Ringworm (scalp) 2
Ringworm (body) 4
Scabies 13
Scarlet fever 49
Sore throat 13
Tonsillitis 60
Whooping cough 74
A close watch is maintained on the incidence of infectious
disease in schools and 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.
Sonne Dysentery
In May an outbreak of dysentery occurred at a primary school,
and control measures were rapidly instituted. During the course
of investigation of the outbreak it was necessary to arrange for
laboratory tests on specimens obtained from 88 children and nine
adults. Positive results for Sonne dysentery were obtained from
21 school children, four pre-school children and one adult.