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CONTROL OF LICE INFESTATION
By the courtesy of the School Medical Officer particulars
regarding the cleanliness surveys in schools have been obtained and
are as follows
Number of children examined:-
Primary Schools 8,806
Secondary Modern Schools 2,619
11,425
Number of children requiring treatment 286
Number of formal cleansing notices issued 48
Number of children cleansed by Local Health Authority . 16
INFECTIOUS DISEASES
The total number of notifications of infectious disease was
lower during 1950 principally due to the decrease in the incidence
of measles®
The principal items of interest in this table are the occurrence
of one case of typhoid fever and nine cases of poliomyelitis. The
typhoid fever patient was likely to have obtained his infection
daring a walking tour of the Pyrenees from which he returned shortly
before developing the symptoms of this disease. During the year,
notification was received of five persons who had been in contact
with cases of smallpox. These were kept under supervision for the
required period and no disease developed.
Of the nine cases of poliomyelitis notified, four were nonparalytic
and uncomplicated and one case of paralytic poliomyelitis
had the diagnosis subsequently changed to non-paralytic. The other
four cases were affected with paralysis to a limited extent and all
required subsequent physiotherapy, details being as follows:-
Case A (Adult). - Improved greatly .- still weakness of left leg
having treatment and appliances from Stanmore Orthopaedic Hospital,
and has resumed work in his former occupation as motor driver.
Case B (Adult). - Improved but developed tuberculosis and is now in
hospital where treatment for limitation of movement of left arm and
shoulder due to poliomyelitis is being carried out.
Case C (Schoolchild). - Improvement but still residual paralysis of
right leg - attends Stanmore Orthopaedic Hospital.
Case D (Adult). - Practically complete recovery - no further
treatment required.
Of the four cases of poliomyelitis in 1949 only one continued at
the end of the year to show residual paralysis. The patient (an
infant) continued to improve throughout 1950 under the care of the
County Council Physiotherapy Department at Brentford.
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