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Average flutter Scabies cases per week 10.5
Largest number in a week 30
Smallest " " " 1
Over 15 in 12 weeks.
9 Recurrent esses occurred in four families,
3 in one family, 2 in three families.
During 1942 the arrangement regained with
the Royal Borough of Kensington for the treatment
of Scabies. In March, 1943 Wembley Hospital
opened a Scabies Clinic in the premises of the
Gas Cleansing rooms attached to the First Aid
Post at the Hospital.
With regard to Scabies, a pamphlet embodying
the main points is distributed as is opportune.
The following is extracted from this pamphlet.
This condition always seems to become more
common during war time, for example, when people
may find that they are unable to maintain their
usual standards of day-to-day cleanliness of
person and clothing. The effective preventive
measure is the common-sense one of routine baths
and regular weekly changing of underclothing.
At night on going to bed all the underclothing
. worn in the daytime should always be taken off
so that it may be spread out and thoroughly aired
during the night.
Inflammation of the skin is caused by the
itch mite. The disease is marked by great
irritation causing scratchings especially at
night when the person is warm in bed. Very
soon pimples or blisters occur going on to
crustings, so that the affected areas take on
an eczema-like appearance. When the condition
is allowed to persist almost the whole body may
become affected but the face and head are
practically never attacked in adults, although
in small children even these areas may suffer.
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