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Total Notices to Parents: Verbal 416
Written 559
975
Total Notices to Teachers; Verbal 31
Written 50
81
These figures represent defects and not defective children.
The number of notices given to the parents indicate children.
More than one defect may be present in a child, hence the former
number is greater than the latter. When notices are given to
the parents, treatment by a doctor may not be necessary, for the
treatment advised may simply be hygienic or home treatment
to be given by the parents.
General View of the Facts Disclosed by Medical Inspection.
A summary of the facts disclosed on School Medical Inspection
is given in Table II. One condition found amongst the children,
and almost entirely amongst the girls, demands some consideration,
and that is verminous condition of the head, or pediculosis capitis.
Pediculosis.
Systematic inspections of the heads of the children in certain
schools were carried out by the School Nurse on three occasions
during the year, the first after the Christmas holidays, the second
after the Easter holidays, the third after the Summer holidays.
The results were as follows:—
Number of Number
children examined, found with pediculosis
1839 106
1913 50
1869 222
All those found with pediculosis were submitted to the
School Medical Officer, as a result 55, 39, and 150 children being
excluded respectively on those occasions.