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7.
SCABIES AND VERMINOUS CONDITIONS.
The Scheme for the treatment of these conditions remained substantially
the same as in the previous year, and the great majority "fere
treated by members of the Civil Defence personnel based at the First Aid
Posts at West Hendon, Mill Hill and Central Hendon Health Centres. This was
supplemented by the services of a part-time attendant for the Childs Hill and
Watling Health Centres, where no Civil Defence personnel were available. It
will be noticed that as compared with the previous year, the numbers of verminous
conditions treated have increased, but this increase was more apparent
than real, end was due to a concerted compaign to ensure that mothers and
children being sent to reception areas were clean on leaving this district,
and therefore very minor degrees of infestation have been included. The
policy has been pursued of examining and treating all members of the family
in which a case of scabies or any verminous condition has been discovered,
and in the former condition prophylactic treatment is given to other members
of the family, as it has been found from experience that only in this way can
the incidence of these diseases be adequately controlled.