37 Years Ago (1981): A school head lice infestation was being brought under control, with the infection rate dropping from 13 percent of the student body to three to five per cent. Nurses stressed the importance for mothers to check their children and every person in the family, every week throughout the summer to ensure that infestation neither took place or reoccurred. The epidemic had closed schools in the Lower Mainland earlier in the year.
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