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During the year under review your nurses have striven really
hard to try to get children's infested heads cleaned up at home,
which, of course, is the right place for this work to be undertaken.
This is reflected in the diminished number of cases which have
been cleansed under arrangements made by the Local Authority.
Before leaving this rather unsavoury subject, I want to make
it perfectly clear that the greater part of the figures submitted to
you of dirty people refer to children who are constantly dealt with
and whom indeed it is sometimes impossible to keep clean because
they are living with adults whose heads are literally crawling.
Indeed on one occasion not so long ago I had a parent protesting
she could not possibly understand why her little girl could not keep
her head clean, and I may mention that she was protesting so
vigorously and shaking her head so firmly that I was mightily
afraid she would shake some of the crawlers on to me, because her
head was so full that they themselves could scarce find purchase.
The work undertaken by your nurses is shown at the end
of the appendix to this Report.
Defective Footgear.—Cases of children with defective footgear
were as heretofore referred to the Boots Minor Sub-Committee,
who considered applications for the provision of boots in 159 cases,
compared with 172 in 1927. In all 209 children were supplied with
boots during the year.