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Barking Town Urban District Council,
PUBLIC HEALTH OFFICES,
BARKING,. ESSEX.
June, 1930.
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 report on the public medical services which are carried on by
you, for the year ended 31st December, 1929.
The opening months of 1929 found you face to face with one
of the most pathetic troubles you have been called upon to
encounter. Dr. Lough, whose name in Barking was a by-word for
everything that was honest and homely and thorough, succumbed
to an illness which had been threatening her for the past few years,
and her death removed from amongst you one whose place it will
be impossible to fill.
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Dr. Lough had not only had a very thorough training in
medicine and particularly in those aspects of medicine in which
she had specialised, she had also a much wider training in many
aspects of life, and her outlook on her duties and responsibilities
was correspondingly comprehensive, added to which she had a
predilection for hard work.