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and that the increase of cases noted ever since 1935 will now stop.
The steady insistence on treating all members of a family, whether
obviously affected or not, may now, for the first time be shewing
its effect. We can only hope so, and watch developments.
School Nurses, during the year, paid particular attention to
verminous conditions, and for this purpose visited schools as frequently
as possible. Perhaps their extra attention to this branch
of their work may account for the increase in cases noted pver 1942.
Every effort has been made to encourage and advise the parents of
infested children to get the trouble out of the household instead of
treating individual children. It is unfortunately true, however, that
many infested people resent advice and are too apt to construe it
as insulting and interfering.
SCHOOL MEALS AND MILK.
Number of meals supplied—1943 323,991
Number of free meals supplied:—
Ordinary Schools 27,169
Special School 313
Number of bottles of free milk supplied:—
Ordinary Schools 67,130
Special School 551
INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
Scarlet Fever.
60 cases were reported during 1943 in the school population,
the distribution being as follows:—
Acton Wells 4
Beaumont Park 3
Berrymede 13
Central 1
Derwentwater 6
John Perryn 10
Priory 5
Rothschild 4
Roman Catholic 1
Southfield 11
West Acton 2