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106 General Statement,
(a) Uncleanliness.—During routine inspection only 18children
were excluded for uncleanliness of the head
and two for uncleanliness of the body. But one can
expect this small number when the parents have hadi
notice of the inspection.
The periodic inspections which are made without
notice give a better idea of the prevalence of verminousconditions
among the children attending the elementary
schools. These inspections are made immediately
after the Easter holidays, after the Summer holidays
and after the Christmas holidays, as it is during the
holidays that the children are apt to be neglected.
The School Nurses made 36 visits to school departments
for the purpose of making inspections of heads.
Thirty-three of these were made after the holidays,
mentioned, but three were made at the particular
request of the head-tea,chers who discovered some verminous
cases in school. No boys' schools were inspected
since bo3rs are seldom found to be affected and when
they are affected the condition is readily apparent to
the teacher who can refer them for special examination
at the Inspection Clinic to which any child
can be sent by a teacher for medical examination in the
morning of any school day.
At these inspections mentioned, 5,691 girls were
examined by the nurse, 686 being referred for medicaL
examination, and 339 being excluded as a result. In
addition, 25 other children were submitted to the
Inspection Clinic by the teachers for medical examination
and excluded. Thus there were altogether 364
school children excluded during the year for verminouS,
conditions. These children excluded for verminouS