London's Pulse: Medical Officer of Health reports 1848-1972

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Wandsworth 1969

[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

Infectious illness reported from schools

Cerebro-spinal meningitis2
Chicken-pox491
Dysentery, diarrhœa or enteritis45
Food poisoning1
German measles97
Glandular fever3
Impetigo39
Influenza7
Jaundice13
Measles500
Mumps773
Ophthalmia and conjunctivitis20
Pneumonia1
Ringworm (body)2
Ringworm (scalp)7
Scabies10
Scarlet fever40
Sore throat1
Tonsillitis51
Whooping cough16