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Graph B.
Tuberculosis Notifications and Deaths from 1930-1950.
Scabies Clinic
There was a satisfactory decline in the numbers attending for cleansing from scabies
and vermin infestation. While this reduction was pleasing, there was still a hard core of
cases becoming reinfested and requiring cleansing two or three times during the same year.
Also certain new verminous cases were found to be heavily infested at the time when they
were first seen, with secondary infection of the scalp or trunk, giving evidence that the
infestation had been in existence for a considerable period of time. The fact that these
heavily infested cases can still occur shows the ever present need for vigilance and particularly
with regard to the adolescent and adult contacts of such cases, who are often averse to
examination, and yet after submitting to this may be found to be carrying live vermin.
As a general rule, there are few who default from reattendance at the Clinic when they
have been asked to return, but this does occur sometimes, and these cases require to be
followed up as they are likely to be a source of danger to others. There is a certain amount
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