Clean ess Affected by Malnutrition Various improvements in the arrangements to be made in the reception areas for evacuees are announced—among others (nat hostels Will be established for children who are unsuitable for billeting on private householders. Medical examination by the evacuating authority is, as far as possible, to be made before every child is evacuated, and if this is not Possible the reception area is to make tempora ary arrangements for looking after the children until they can be examined. Hostel accommodation is also to be provided for children who are found to be suffering from "scabies, impetigo, or serious conditions of uncleanliness. But with regard to uncleanliness or verminous conditions which are not so serious as to justify exclusion from school, the Government is apparently relying on the fact that the school medical service is now beginning to work again in the evacuation areas. 3
Although it is true that conditions today are not comparable with those existing years ago when medical inspection of school children was in its infancy, the most that can be said is that during the last five years—years which have seen a large increase in the number of houses with baths and the demolition of some of the worst patches of slum housing—the school population has not become dirtier. The situation cannot be allowed to continue, specially with the prospect of a fresh dispersal of the children.
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