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Uncleanliness
The number of children found with vermin and/or nits during the year was 123.
No children can be compulsorily cleansed in the Borough as we have no cleansing station
now, but frequent attendances of the infested children at school clinics and repeated
home visits by school nurses have resolved the problem to a small nucleus of recurrently
infested families who require constant supervision, and a larger number of children who
are only very temporarily infested and quickly cleansed by the parents.
Late in the year, arrangements were made with Hackney Borough Council to take
persistent offenders to be cleansed in Hackney for a small fee, for which the Education
General Purposes Committee agreed to take responsibility.
Infestation with Vermin
All cases of infestation, however slight, are recorded.
This return relates to instances of infestation and not to individual pupils.
(i) Total number of examinations of pupils in the schools
by school nurses or other authorised persons 17,479
(ii) Number of instances of infestation found 132
(iii) Number of cleansing notices issued (Section 54 (2)
Education Act, 1944) 132
(iv) Number of disinfestations carried out:—
By school nurses 21
By parents 111
VISUAL DEFECTS
Vision tests were carried out on all children at the school medical inspections and
292 referred for treatment at the Ophthalmic Clinics and 157 kept under observation.
Eye Diseases, Defective Vision and Squint
Number of cases dealt with
By the
Authority
Otherwise
External and other (excluding errors of refraction and
squint)
424
249
Errors of refraction (including squint)
—
1,266
Number of pupils for whom spectacles were prescribed
—
600
59