[Margaret Pilkington]

As for nits(I know this has nothing to do with toothache) my mother was religious about checking our heads every Friday night before our weekly bath(tin one, off the wall in the back yard) that and washing our hair with Derbac soap.
I only got head lice once...and that was as a first year student nurse working on E3 ward at QPH......one of the little blighters hitched a lift on me while I was bathing and delousing a tramp who had been brought in for care.
It is still a mystery as to how this head louse managed to get through the protective gear I wearing during this process......the blighter was soon located and put to death by squashing.