Lice make head start on school children
Head lice have made an earlier appearance in the hair of Canterbury primary school children this year. The Deputy Medical Officer of Health in Christchurch, Dr M. A. Brieseman. said that outbreaks of lice among children were expected after the beginning of the school year, but this year they had come earlier than usual. The incidence of lice is “somewhat above average” at the moment, and he wants parents to check for them. “People tend to think that lice occur only in scruffy kids,” said Dr Brieseman, “and that' because they are a middleclass family their children won’t get them. This is' not so. Anybody can pick it up. It needs only one or two in the class to have it and it will multiply furiously.” Dr Brieseman said the lice outbreaks were not more prevalent in any one area of the city but were scattered. Parents and teachers should check childrens hair for the lice and for the insects’ eggs or nits, as they were sometimes known. The lice were. little brown insects the size of a pinhead which crawled about in the hair, he said.
Lice make head start on school children
Press, 16 February 1980, Page 1
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