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Finally, as I have said earlier in this Report, it is hoped that by the time of
the next Report an Ear, Nose and Throat Clinic will have been set up in your Town
and that also at some not far distant date you may have one Central Out-Patients'
Department, where all your special services, including orthoptics, i.e., the correction
of squint, and audiometry, i.e., the estimation of hearing, may all be united in one
main building.
(8) INFECTIOUS DISEASES.
The section of the Department concerned with the control of infectious or
communicable diseases co-operates closely with the school medical service section.
Certificates regarding the exclusion from and readmission to school of children
suffering from notifiable infectious diseases, non-notifiable communicable diseases
and of contacts are sent to head teachers and school attendance officers. The
names and addresses of children who are absent from school on account of nonnotifiable
communicable diseases are supplied by the school attendance officers on
forms specially provided for the purpose and the homes of the cases are visited by
officers of the Department.

In connection with the above, it has not been necessary to close any school or
school department during the year.
Immunisation Treatment.—Your service includes immunisation for diphtheria,
scarlet fever and whooping cough, and although attendance is fairly good at these
clinics, I should be glad to see more parents taking advantage of this service,
particularly in the case of children within the early school age-group.
(9) OPEN-AIR EDUCATION.
Open-Air Classrooms and Playground Classes.—You have 14,089 schoolchildren
in Barking.