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27
ANNUAL REPORT
OF THE
School Medical Officer
FOR THE YEAR 1939.
Town Hall,
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 1939.
During the year, Dr. D. J. Thomas, Medical Officer of Health
and School Medical Officer, retired. He had seen the inception and
growth of the School Medical Service in Acton and has given a short
resumé of the work in an article included in the Report.
The year 1939 will remain for ever memorable for the great
experiment of evacuation. On September 1st, 1939, the Government
ordered the evacuation scheme to be put into operation. The school
populations all over the country were altered, and it has therefore
been impossible in the Annual Report to follow the pattern
of previous reports, i.e., to mark increases and decreases in the
incidence of disease, to compare the nutrition of the school children