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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
Acton 1944
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Acton]
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Nine cases only of Diphtheria were reported amongst school
children and sixteen cases of Scarlet Fever. It will be seen, there
fore, that neither disease constituted a problem in 1944.
Your obedient servants,
G. E. B. PAYNE.
E. MADELEY.
INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
SCHOOL MEALS AND MILK.
| Number of meals supplied—1944 | — | — | — | 290,336 | |
| Number of free meals supplied: — | — | — | '— | 30,217 | |
| Ordinary Schools | — | — | — | 29,481 | |
| Special School | — | — | — | — | 370 |
| Number of bottles of free milk supplied: — | _ | _ | 71.139 | ||
| Ordinary Schools | — | — | — | 69731 | |
| Special School | — | — | — | — | — |
Scarlet Fever.
16 cases of Scarlet Fever were reported during 1944 in the school population, the distribution being as follows: —
| Acton Wells | — | — | 4 |
| Berrymede | — | _ | 4 |
| Derwentwater | — | — | 1 |
| Priory Infants' | — | — | 3 |
| Southfield Lowee | — | — | 2 |
| West Acton | — | — | 2 |