[Report 1963] / School Health Service, Flintshire County Council.

  • Flintshire (Wales). County Council. School Health Service.
Date:
1963
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Credit: [Report 1963] / School Health Service, Flintshire County Council. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    During the year school nurses continued to work closely with teachers to discover cases of infestation as early as possible. When discovered “Suleo” or “Lorexane” was supplied free to parents and instruction in cleansing if requested. Cleansing clinics were held as in previous years to cleanse children whose parents were unwilling or incapable of cleans- ing in a satisfactory manner. It is hoped to reduce still further the number of children found infested in the coming years, but this will demand considerable effort on the part of all the staff. The majority of cases are girls and so often the same girls get infested on several occasions during the year from older sisters who have left school or, in some cases, parents or relatives. As long as certain families remain reservoirs of infestation it will be difficult to make a substantial reduction in this year’s figures or to maintain a steady reduction in the coming years. This problem is one of personal hygiene and social conscience, and both factors must be tackled before any marked improvement will result. Table 8 INFESTATION WITH VERMIN. Number of individual children examined by School Nurses .... 19,786 Total number of examinations in the schools by the School Nurses or other authorised persons .... .... .... 37,619 Total number of Individual pupils found to be infested .... 456 Number of individual pupils in respect of whom cleansing notices were issued (Section 54(2), Education Act, 1944) — Number of individual pupils in respect of whom cleansing orders were issued (Section 54(3), Education Act, 1944) — Vaccinatian against Smallpox.—A total of 68.54% of children exam- ined at routine medical examinations showed evidence of successful vac- cination against Smallpox. Although prior to 1948 exemption from vaccination had been far too easily obtainable, the National Health Service Act abolished compulsory vaccination in the hope that voluntary vaccination against Smallpox would prove to be as successful as immun- isation against Diphtheria. In the years immediately following 1 948 the number of children who received primary vaccination fell sharply, but in recent years the number has increased.