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PREVALENCE OF, AND CONTROL OVER, INFECTIOUS
AND OTHER DISEASES
CONTROL OF VERMIN AND SCABIES
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 7,737
Secondary Modern Schools 2,700
10,437
Number of children requiring treatment 48
Number of children in respect of whom
cleansing notices were issued 38
Number of children cleansed by Local
Health Authority 22
For detail see Table XI on page 84.
The figures for infestation with vermin improved slightly during 1963.
By arrangement with the Medical Officer of Health of Hammersmith, persons
requiring cleansing because of infestation with scabies or vermin can be treated
at the Hammersmith Cleansing Station,, During 1963, 6 persons were referred for
cleansing from scabies.
INFECTIOUS DISEASE
In the year 1963 the amount of infectious disease notified increased
mainly due to the biennial occurrence of measles. There was a rise in the figure
for notifications of food poisoning, but only one of these was subsequently
confirmed bacteriologically and another confirmed as Sonne Dysentery, Several
cases of ophthalmia neonatorum were notified, mainly as a result of a request
that the statutory notification requirement be observed, i.e. the occurrence of
a sticky eye in a new born infant within 21 days of birth. So many children
from hospital appear at clinics affected in this way, that it is obvious that
the notification requirement is not being observed.
Measles
21

Poliomyelitis
No notifications of anterior poliomyelitis were received during the year.
The Scheme for inoculation against poliomyelitis inaugurated by Middlesex
County Health Department in 1956, continued during 1963.