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DIPHTHERIA IMMUNISATION CLINIC.
Total number of attendances 869
Number of Children immunised during the year 1945.
(a) Preschool children (under 5 years) 391
(b) School children (5—15 years) 25
Total 416
In addition 84 children were found to have been immunised in
other districts.
Grand Total of children in the Borough who had received immunising
treatment by the end of the year.
(a) Under 5 years 1,459
(b) Between 5 and 15 years 3,022
VERMINOUS CONDITIONS.
SCABIES.
As was to be expected, the close of the War has been followed by
a sharp reduction in the incidence of Scabies among the civil
population, most fresh cases today being traceable to the restoration of
demobilised members of the Armed Forces to their families.
Thus, during the year 1945, 274 new cases of scabies were treated
at the Health Centre as against 431 in the year 1944. This figure
included 141 school children.
HEAD-LICE.
On the other hand, no parallel fall has occurred in the incidence
of head'infestation, which continues, in peace as in war, to bear
relation rather to the proportion of school children derived from socalled
problem-families. The steps taken by the Public Health Department
to combat this class of infestation have been redoubled during
the year in an effort to establish a fresh code of cleanliness among such
families, a number of whom have recently returned from evacuation.
The following figures serve to indicate the position for the year
under review:—