How to keep well in wartime
1943 1943 1940s 28 pages : illustrations FIGHT DISEASE WITH HYGIENE lice attack the body and others the head. The head lice lay their eggs in the hair of the victim, close to the scalp. Those eggs are called nits. They look rather like scurf, but you can't blow them off, as they stick firml...
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| Institution: | MCR - The Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick |
| Language: | English English |
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London : His Majesty's Stationery Office
1943
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28 pages : illustrations
FIGHT DISEASE WITH HYGIENE lice attack the body and others the head. The head lice lay their eggs in the hair of the victim, close to the scalp. Those eggs are called nits. They look rather like scurf, but you can't blow them off, as they stick firmly to the hair. There is one simple remedy against lousiness — and that is cleanliness. This means a bath and a thorough wash all over at least once a week. A child's head must be washed weekly, too, and thoroughly combed and brushed every night. A large number of evacuated school-children were found to have nits in the hair. It wasn't always their fault or the fault of their parents. They often caught the lice from other children. If your child is unlucky enough to have nits in the hair, try to get rid of them, first of all by washing hair and scalp thoroughly. Then, when the hair has been dried, go through it with a fine comb specially made for the purpose. Ask your chemist for a fine tooth comb, preferably a "Sacker" or a "Binns" comb. Any old comb won't do. When you comb, remember to go through the hair close to the scalp, for it is there the lice lay their tough little eggs. If you don't succeed in getting rid of them seek advice from a Health Visitor, District Nurse, or School Nurse. How to Avoid Infection. Scabies, or "the itch", is a skin disease caused by a tiny spider-like creature called a mite. The female burrows into the skin and, in the track made, she lays her eggs. The eggs develop into other mites. The itch mite goes for the soft skin between the fingers, on the front of the wrist, in the arm-pits, or between the buttocks. It avoids the face and the scalp. At the moment, thousands of people all over the country have scabies. The mite passes from one person to another, chiefly as a result of close personal contact between these two people — for example, when they sleep in the same bed. So the problem is to find all those who have scabies and to treat them properly so that they shan't hand on their itch mites to others. If you, or any of your family, have the itch, please go to your doctor now. Like lousiness, it is a family disease, and it is wisest to have the whole family or household examined and treated for it at the same time. It is wise, too, to see that each member of the family has his or her own towel, hair-brush, and comb - and uses no other. 9. Stop Germs from Spreading It is easy to see that if you have itch mites burrowing into the skin of your hand it is a fairly simple matter for the mite to move on to someone else and begin another lot of burrows. It is not so easy to see how some other infections spread. 19
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