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Barking 1938
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barking]
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Children depend primarily upon their parents for
true upbringing, and as it is more and more evident that
parents are becoming more interested in the health of
their children, as seen by their closer attention and
constant attendance during school medical inspection
and treatment, then it is possible to say that children
will obtain the maximum benefit from this increased
interest by their parents.
Finally I would mention the National Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Children, the London Child
Guidance Clinic and other voluntary bodies which work
actively in the above connection.
The following table shows the work which has been undertaken in Barking by the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children during the last five years:—
| 1934 | 1935 | 1936 | 1937 | 1938 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total number of cases investigated | 24 | 35 | 28 | 25 | 16 |
| nil | nil | nil | nil. | nil | |
| (b) Warnings | 18 | 29 | 23 | 16 | 13 |
| (c) Otherwise dealt with | 6 | 6 | 5 | 9 | 3 |
| (d) Supervisory visits | 131 | 180 | 127 | 156 | 62 |
| (e) Cases closed as satisfactory | 17 | 29 | 14 | 19 | 5 |
(13) BLIND, DEAF, DEFECTIVE AND
EPILEPTIC CHILDREN.
The following table shows the number of children
who have attended at the Faircross Special School—in
the Open-Air, Physically Defective and Mentally
Defective Sections—and, in addition, in other parts of
the report will be found figures as to how many
children have been admitted to the Brookfield
Orthopaedic Hospital and elsewhere for orthopaedic
conditions:—