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School Nurses:—The Nurses examined and re-examined children
at the schools as to their condition of cleanliness or otherwise as follows:
Number of Children examined 111,044
„ ,, with verminous bodies 61
„ „ „ „ heads 2,486
,, ,, unsatisfactory (principally
with nits in the hair) 23,309
The verminous and otherwise unsatisfactory, cases were followed
up at their homes when necessary.
5,012 home visits were paid by the nurses.
Cleansing Baths:—8 children have had their bodies cleansed and
their clothes disinfected at the Council's Disinfecting Station; and
disinfection of the homes from which they came was effected 5 times.
Spray Baths:—During the year 258 children received 421 baths
for scabies, and 245 were cured and enabled to return to school.
Notifications under the Infectious Disease Notification Acts, 18891899,
were received in respect of the following diseases occurring
amongst children of school age, with the noted frequency:—
Scarlet Fever 340
Diphtheria 194
Enteric Fever 3
Measles 851
Cerebro Spinal Fever 1
Erysipelas 2
Voluntary Notifications:—The following cases were voluntarily
notified by teachers and attendance officers during the year:—
Measles 548 Sore Throat 15
Mumps 80 Tuberculosis 10
Whooping Cough 64 Influenza 38
Chicken Pox 162 Eye Diseases 12
Scarlet Fever 157 Ringworm of Head 122
Diphtheria 65 Ringworm of Body 3
Scabies 109 Sores and Eczema 145
Skin Diseases 9 Impetigo 17
Verminous 58 Other Diseases 21
Tonsillitis 7 Children excluded owing to
disease in house 19
These cases were followed up by the school nurses and were not
re-admitted to school until they were free from infection and the
possibility of communicating the disease to others.