10 LICE AND THEIR MENACE TO MAN 



relentless war against the louse. This can be 

 done successfully by the efforts of public sanitary 

 bodies and by individual effort. The latter is a 

 very useful adjunct to the former, and indeed is 

 most necessary, and the public should be in- 

 structed in the danger of being lousy and in the 

 simple methods of cleansing themselves thor- 

 oughly. To this should be added the careful 

 and frequent inspection of school children, and 

 attention to the homes from which the infested 

 ones come. Much of this inspection is already 

 carried out with most beneficial results, but too 

 often the cleansed child is allowed to return to 

 the home where younger brothers and sisters or 

 even parents are in a similar verminous condition 

 and ready to reinfest them at once. 



