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first aid posts. Of these, No. 61, at the Broadway Clinic, Wealdstone,
treated the most, whereas, throughout the year only 34 attended Post 63
at Pinner. Towards the end of the year the curtailment in the Civil
Defence Services led to the closing of Posts 59 (Priestmead School), 61
and 63. For the month of December, then, treatment was available
only at Posts 56 (Alexandra Avenue Clinic) and Post 58 (The Car Park,
Harrow). In December, although Post 58 would be treating those who
would previously have attended here and at Posts 61 and 59, the attendance
for the month, though much greater than the average there in
previous months, was very much less than the sums of the average
attendances of the three posts. The reduction in the total numbers
attending for treatment throughout the year then cannot be accepted as
indicating a decline in the incidence of infection, but more probably is a
measure of the deficiency of the services provided as compared with
previous arrangements. The difficulties in the way of providing the
service arise from lack of premises and shortage of staff.
Head Infestation.
Of the male patients admitted to the Isolation Hospital during the
year, the heads of 4 per cent, of those under 5 years of age, 6 per cent,
of those of 5 to 9 years, and 8 per cent, of those of 10 to 14 years were
infested, though the heads of all of those over the age of 14 were clean.
The corresponding figures amongst females were 0, 12, 15 and 0.

The notifications of pulmonary tuberculosis which reached their
highest figure of 349 in 1941, fell to 318 in the next year, then to 261 in
1943. Last year saw a slight rise again to 289. Of all those first learned