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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Erith 1938
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Erith]
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Provision of Meals, Milk and Malt and Oil.
Milk has been issued 011 the School Medical Officer's certificate
to 71 children during the year, the issue being twothird
pint bottles per day. In the case of children suffering
from a greater degree of malnourishment, meals have also been
provided.
Below is set out a table showing the quantities of Malt and Oil distributed:—
| Total amount issued during the year: | |||
| Erith | 1275 lbs. | ||
| Bed on we 11 | 156 lbs. | ||
| — | 1431 lbs. | ||
| Amount issued free: | |||
| Erith | 1222 lbs. | ||
| Bedonwell | 150 lbs. | ||
| — | 1372 lbs. | ||
| No. of children receiving free issues: | |||
| Erith | 127 | ||
| Bedonwell | 10 | ||
| — | 137 | ||
| Amount sold at cost price: | |||
| Erith | 53 lbs. | ||
| Bedonwell | 6 lbs. | ||
| — | 59 lbs. | ||
At the end of the year a total of 31(5 children were receiving
free milk at school.
Nine recommendations were made for free meals during
the year, bringing the total number of children receiving free
meals to 24.
Uncleanliness.
During 1938, 140 children were found to be verminous,
at inspections made in the schools by the School Nurses. This
figure again shows an improvement over the previous year's
figure, but, in fairness to the large proportion of parents whose
children are invariably clean, I must again repeat that the persistence
of this figure is due to a small group of chronic
offenders.