196 TRANSACTIONS OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE. [Vov. VIII. 
The Head Master takes steps for exclusion on the nurses’ report. 
They are supplied with names of absentees, and visits are made to 
the homes. 
Their visits to schools are educational to teachers and scholars, 
while visits to homes are stimulating to parents. 
Each nurse has 85 schools under her oversight, with an average 
attendance of 100,000 children. 
The cases treated are unclean heads, ringworm, and favus. 
A series of cards are issued to parents, giving information as to 
treatment, etc. 
FIRST CARD. 
(Front of card) 
PRIVATE NOTICE. 
Your attention is drawn to the condition of this child’s head, which has been no- 
ticed in school. The school nurse has examined it, and states that by attention to the 
directions given on the other side it can be rendered permanently clean within a week. 
If cleansing is not effected by that time, the child will have to be kept separated from 
the others in school until the unclean condition is remedied. 
(Back of Card). 
INSTRUCTIONS FOR CLEANSING HEADs. 
Where there are sore places, scabs, or enlarged glands, these will generally get better 
on removing all lice and nits. 
It is possible to effect a cure in about a week. 
All hairs with nits and all hair within a quarter of an inch of a sore must be cut off. 
The head must be washed and scrubbed daily with paraffin oil, to which an equal 
quantity of olive may be added. If there are scabs, these when softened should be re- 
moved. 
Repeat this treatment daily for a week, then weekly until all signs of lice are gone. 
Where there is difficulty in keeping a child’s head clean, the hair should be worn 
cut short. 
Iron the collar of the clothes with a hot iron. 
Caution—Do not use paraffin near a fire or naked light. 
SECOND CARD. 
(Front of Card). 
ScHOOL BOARD FOR LONDON. 
SECOND WARNING. To the Parents or Guardians of ———_—_ 
A Private Notice regarding the condition of this child’s head having been sent 
you, and as this condition, which should be remedied in a week, is still allowed to persist, 
the child has now been separated in school as unfit to be in the ordinary class. You 
are required to take steps to cleanse its head within the next week, failing which the 
child will be excluded from school and you will be liable to prosecution and fine for not 
sending it in a fit state to school. The means for cleansing these heads is given on 
the other side of this card. 
(Back of Card. As on First Card). 
