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Uncleanliness.—The previous year's average of 10 visits per
Department was maintained during 1932 by the School Nurses, who
made a total of 105,390 examinations and who found 1,395 individual
children to be unclean. No children were cleansed under
arrangements by your Committee, nor were any legal proceedings
taken.
The following table gives comparative figures for the past two
years:—
1932. 1931.
Average number of visits per school 10 10
Total number of examinations 105,390 117,253
Number of individual children found
unclean 1,395 1,051
Percentage uncleanliness 1.32 0.89
New arrangements are now in operation under which each Department
will be examined at the beginning of each school term and
cases of chronic uncleanliness will be followed up in the home and
not by repeated inspections at school as previously carried out.
Skin Defects.—The following is the number of cases of Skin
Diseases found during the year:—
Ringworm—Head 23
Scalp 23
Scabies 27
Impetigo 321
Other Skin Disease 267
Eye Defects.—616 defects of Vision required treatment, and 25
required observation. The 1931 figures were 454 and 25 respectively.
In addition, there were 51 cases of squint found to require treatment
and 1 requiring observation.