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Barking Town Urban District Council.
PUBLIC HEALTH OFFICES,
BARKING, ESSEX.
April, 1929.
To the Chairman and Members of the
Local Education Authority.
Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen,
Herewith I beg to submit for your favourable consideration
my First Annual Report on the Public Medical Services which
are carried on by you. The report deals with the year ending
31st December, 1928.
My first year of office has naturally been one of stocktaking
and enquiry. I am happy to be able to inform you that the various
services you have inaugerated compare, so far as their scope is
concerned, more than favourably with the services provided by
Local Authorities with resources comparable with your own.
You carry out the routine medical examination of children,
and children are specially examined for admission to and for
report on progress at your Open-air School and your Special Classes
at Faircross for mentally-defective children and for children suffering
from crippling defects. Your children are further examined before
they go to week-end camps and before they go to your summer
holiday camp, and other necessary special examinations are carried
out. You have a Minor Ailment Clinic open every day in the week,
and at Faircross there is a clinic for remedial exercises, ultra violet
light and other forms of treatment, including electricity and
massage advised by your consulting orthopaedic surgeon, Mr. Whitchurch
Howell.