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Loans and assistance with training
courses 4
Holiday fare 3
Pocket money 5
Dried milk and drinking chocolate
(American Red Cross) was supplied to
numerous patients.
Scabies
The Scabies Order, 1941. provided for the diagnosis and
treatment of scabies.
A clinic for the diagnosis of this condition has been held by
the Medical Officer of Health each morning at Mitcham Court.
Efforts have been made to obtain the co-operation, not only of
the patient, but of the whole family, and all have been treated
when possible.
In order that treatment might be given after 6 p.m., the
Cleansing Section at the Western Road First Aid Post has been
adapted for treatment, and has been in use since June, 1944.
Members of the family who are at work are loth to lose time from
work for treatment, especially if they have few or no symptoms.
Usually treatment was with benzyl benzoate lotion 25 per
cent., and this has given very good results. Female patients have
been treated by a nurse on the staff, and the men have been
treated by a male attendant who has received special training.
No disinfection of clothing or bedding, other than washing,
has been recommended, and the results have justified the adoption
of this course.
Visits paid, 10.
Attendances at clinic, 334 persons; representing 140 families.
Treated at baths, 206 persons; representing 91 families.
Number of baths given, 436.
Supplied with lotion or ointment (for home treatment), 53
persons; representing 26 families.
Referred to hospital, 1.