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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
Barking 1930
[Report of the School Medical Officer for Barking]
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There is, perhaps, no factor to-day which tends to make persons
more conscious of any deficient education than the recognised want
of table manners. The inability to speak as an educated person
may be mitigated by discreet silences, but coarse table manners
cannot be hidden and are a definite hindrance to social life, and—
what is even worse—they are very bad from a medical standpoint.
The following table shows the number of children who do
not return home for the mid-day meal, and if and whether facilities
are provided for them.
It also shows what facilities, if any, exist for the drying of children's clothes and boots.
| School. | No. of children who do not return home for mid-day meal. | Whether facilities exist for heating of children's meals. | Whether facilities exist for the drying of children's clothes and boots. | |
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| — | „ | Yes—at Laundry School fires in winter only. | ||
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| Small stove in teachers' private room. | ||||
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