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61
annual report
of THE
School Medical Officer
FOR THE YEAR 1937.
Municipal Offices,
Acton, W.3.
To the Chairman and Members of
the Acton Education Committee.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
We beg to submit the following report upon the schools and
school children of Acton for the year 1937.
As in former years the subject matter has been arranged as
far as possible in tabular form. The Tables at the end of the report
are those issued by the Board of Education.
1937 showed an increase in the number of Diphtheria cases.
This was to be expected following the observations in last year's
report that it was becoming increasingly difficult to interest parents
in the question of having their children protected against Diphtheria.
The fact that there was "no Diphtheria about" was enough for
them, without their stopping to consider why this was so.
Scabies continued to infest the Borough and cases were
reported from all quarters of the town, although the bulk came from