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The control of ringworm is also well maintained, there being
only 5 cases under observation at the end of the year. When it
is remembered that before medical inspection commenced there
were 135 cases of ringworm of the scalp absent from school because
of this condition, the effect of X-ray treatment and strict
supervision of ringworm is manifest.
There was a high incidence of infectious disease during the
year, particularly Scarlet Fever, and, to a lesser degree, Diphtheria..
The latter disease was responsible for the deaths of three
children of school age.
A case of Smallpox, an unvaccinated girl aged 14 years (a
scholar at Loxford Girls' School), occurred in the Loxford Ward on
2nd May. The patient was removed to Orsett Hospital the same
day, and the house disinfected. The contacts in the case were
rigorously followed up, and vaccination carried out, I am pleased
to record that owing to the measures adopted, no further cases
occurred.
As a result of a number of complaints received regarding the
sanitary conveniences in some of the schools, I made a personal
inspection, with the Senior Sanitary Inspector, at the beginning of
the year of all the conveniences, and, as a result, forwarded the
following report to the Director of Education for submission to
the Works and Sites Sub-Committee:—
"(1) At Cleveland Schools there are still in use the old variety
of open-trough water closets. The Sanitary Inspectors
have frequent complaints from the houses of children who
are suffering from infectious disease and who have been in
attendance at this school. I think the time has come
when the Committee should consider the replacement by
modern separate pedestal W.C.'s and flushing cisterns.
(2) At Loxford, Downshall, Highlands, Newbury Park Boys'
and Girls'. Christchurch Boys', Girls' and Infants' (W.
side). there is a pattern of trough closet not so unhygienic