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During both types or survey, vermin were found on 511 occasions,
representing 1.45% of the total number of examinations.
The number of individual pupils found to be verminous was 397
or 0.81% of the school roll of 49,133. On 418 occasions the
parents or children, or both, were advised about treatment and
in many cases were given Lorexane shampoo for home treatment.
On the further 93 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 425
Total attendances 557
Scabies
Cases treated 106
Total attendances 228
Impetigo
Cases treated Nil