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During both types of survey, vermin were found on 751
occasions, representing 1.89% of the total number of examinations.
The number of individual pupils found to be verminous was 603
or 1.22% of the school roll of 49,425. On 588 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 163 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.