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Uncleanliness and Verminous Conditions.—In my last Annual
Report I dealt rather fully with uncleanliness in school children, showing how
the percentage found to be unclean had fallen from 19.07 per cent. in 1913
to 1.09 per cent. in 1953. I am pleased to be able to report a further fall
in the incidence of uncleanliness—to 0.67 per cent. in 1954. It should be
realised, however, that the verminous child is still with us, and that it is
only by dint of unremitting inspection, exclusion and treatment of the unclean,
that the clean are protected against infection.
At the special inspections held by the school nurses, 197 children were
found to be unclean out of a total number of 29,364 examined (i.e., 0.67 per
cent.).

Number of individual children found unclean, 166; of whom 31 were
referred to the Minor Ailments Clinics.
MEDICAL TREATMENT
Minor Ailments Clinics.
Attendances.
During the year 3,231 individual children attended the clinics, and
made 8,069 attendances.
Defective Vision.
Of the 3,780 children subjected to routine code group inspection in the
schools, 159 (4.21 per cent.) were found to be suffering from some eye defect
requiring treatment.