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 Wandsworth, Metropolitan Borough]
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During both types of survey, vermin were found on 532 occasions,
representing 1.22% of the total number of examinations.
The number of individual pupils found to be verminous was 461
or 0.97% of the school roll of 47,708. On 430 occasions the
parents or children, or both, were advised about treatment and
in many cases were given Lorexane shampoo for home treatment.
On a further 102 occasions pupils were referred to bathing centres
for appropriate treatment.
The work done at the two bathing centres in the Borough in
connection with vermin, scabies and impetigo is shown in the
following table. A "case" is a child discharged after a course
of treatment (e.g. 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 348
Total attendances 373
Scabies
Cases treated 83
Total attendances 168
Impetigo
Cases treated Nil
Cerebro-spinal meningitis | 2 |
Chicken-pox | 491 |
Dysentery, diarrhœa or enteritis | 45 |
Food poisoning | 1 |
German measles | 97 |
Glandular fever | 3 |
Impetigo | 39 |
Influenza | 7 |
Jaundice | 13 |
Measles | 500 |
Mumps | 773 |
Ophthalmia and conjunctivitis | 20 |
Pneumonia | 1 |
Ringworm (body) | 2 |
Ringworm (scalp) | 7 |
Scabies | 10 |
Scarlet fever | 40 |
Sore throat | 1 |
Tonsillitis | |
Whooping cough | 16 |