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Under the School Medical Service the school nurses during
1944 made 9,554 examinations of children for verminous conditions,
and of this number 135 individual children were discovered
unclean on 144 occasions, some cases being recurrent
during the year. Of this number 83 were classified as highly
verminous and excluded from school attendance and 61 slightly
verminous. No legal action became necessary to deal with
recalcitrant cases under the School Attendance Byelaws. Suitable
combs and preparations for dealing with verminous heads
are available at the School Clinics.

The excess of treatments of impetigo over inspections is
a carry-over of treatments from the previous year.
The health visitors exercise continuous supervision of infected
cases, not only at clinics and welfare centres, but also in
the homes, and so ensure success of the treatment given. Badly
infected cases and patients not yielding to treatment are
admitted to the County Hospital, Farnborough.
Rats and Mice Destruction.
An Assistant Rodent Officer was appointed in June, 1944.
in order that the Department might better cope with the
measures of rodent destruction under the provisions of the
Infestation Order. 1.943.

The abatements include a carry-over of outstanding cases
of infestations from previous year.
Legal Proceedings.
No Court proceedings were instituted under the foregoing
headings of this Section of the Report.