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In addition to washing the hair once a week, therefore, it should be
well brushed twice a day, and combed with a fine tooth comb at least
every night.
Children should be taught that they must not try on each other's hats.
Everybody is agreed that girls at school, particularly young girls,
are not so likely to get into trouble with infestation if their hair is kept
short, and some people say that we should go a stage further and keep the
hair tied back or plaited.
I hope to achieve such a
high standard of cleanliness that
this will not be necessary,
because whilst I can say that if
the hair is plaited there is less
likely to be cross-infestation,
such infestation if it does occur
is very likely to be a serious
than in hair which from time to trouble in hair which is plaited time
is blown about and otherwise disturbed.
The older girls or, indeed, girls of any age, must be taught to adopt
simple hair styles; to avoid tight curls and, indeed, to avoid anything
which is likely to mean that they will not brush or comb their hair at least
twice a day.
Question:—Should all handicapped children attend Special
Schools ?
Answer:—The answer to this is definitely No. School life, particularly
life in the school playground, is the very best background for
developing character, and however necessary it may be in certain cases
it is a bad thing to bring children up with the idea they are different
from other children and must go to a different sort of school.
Where a child is so
handicapped that he or she
cannot derive proper benefit
from going to an ordinary
school, or where it would
be too dangerous for him
or her to do so, or where
their presence in the school
is likely to upset the
efficiency of that school,
then it is a question that
"needs must when the devil
drives," and such children
must go to Special Schools,
but it is a far, far better
thing for a child with a
handicap, if it is at all
possible, to learn its niche
INFESTATION
Total number of examinations
in the schools by the school
nurses or other authorised
persons 22,652
Total number of individual i
pupils found to be infested 684
Number of Children Attending
Special Schools.
Faircross Day Special School, Barking.
Open-air Section 37
Physically-handicapped Section 21
Educationally Sub-normal Section 33
Tunmarsh Lane Day Special School
for the Deaf and Partially Deaf,
West Ham.
Totally deaf 4
Partially deaf 4
Residential Special Schools.
Open-air 4
Educationally sub-normal 1
Partially deaf 1
Epileptic 1
Blind 1
Partially sighted 1
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