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St Pancras 1924
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]
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Feeding of School Children.
The County Medical Officer has also kindly furnished the following particulars in regard to the feeding of school children in St. Pancras during the year ended 31st March, 1925:—
| - | Weekly average Number of children fed. | Number of meals provided. | Cod Liver Oil and Malt. | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dinners. | Breakfasts. | Milk. | |||
| 213 | 13120 | — | 27376 | 960 | |
| (b) Non-necessitous | 464 | 7924 | — | 76375 | 2888 |
| 75 | 12539 | — | 2605 | 199 | |
| (6) Non-necessitous | 313 | 53767 | — | 14482 | — |
| Totals | 1065 | 87350 | — | 120838 | 3947 |
The schools were closed for normal holidays during the following periods:—
Easter—17th to 28thApril, 1924.
Whitsuntide—9th and 10th June, 1924.
Summer—24th July to 25th August, 1924, inclusive.
Autumn—27th and 28th October, 1924.
Christmas—19th December, 1924, to 5th January, 1925, inclusive.
St. Pancras School Clinics.
The following interesting account of the valuable work carried out on behalf of school
children at the three Treatment Centres in St. Pancras has been supplied by Dr. A. R. Roche,
the Secretary-Superintendent.
This work is not only curative, but, as will be seen from the report, is also preventive.
The benefit to the general health and physical well-being as a result of the attention given to
dental defects, ear, eye, nose and throat, etc., troubles is enormous, and, as Dr. Roche observes,
" as regards the volume of work done, the numbers speak for themselves."
School Treatment Centres.
It gives me great pleasure to accede to the request of the Medical Officer of Health for
a brief account of the activities of the School Treatment Centres in the Borough. As is
probably well known, this work is done by voluntary agencies under agreement with the
London County Council. The school doctors, appointed by the Council, periodically inspect
the children in the schools, and those needing treatment are either referred, at the option of
the parents, to their own doctors, or to the School Treatment Centres.
In this Borough there are three Centers the Highgate New Town Clinic, Chester
Road, the St. Pancras Centre in Prince of Wales Road, and the Lancing Street Centre in
Churchway, Euston Road. The Highgate New Town Clinic has its own Committee, and the
two other Centres are managed by the St. Pancras Medical Service. The writer of this short
statement acts as Secretary and Superintendent to both bodies.