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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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The whole situation is overshadowed by the fact that a large
number of people are living under circumstances which are such
that only a continual warfare against infestation can possibly
maintain cleanliness in this direction, and these very self-same
distressing circumstances are such as to make it unlikely that the
parents of these children will maintain the persistent effort without
which cleanliness cannot be attained or retained.

Table: A relatively small proportion of such cases in any town is likely to infest quite a large number of children because they provide a constant source of infestation, which renders other children unclean whose parents are doing quite sufficient to keep their children clean if it were not for this constant infestation.

A relatively small proportion of such cases in any town is likely to infest quite a large number of children because they provide a constant source of infestation, which renders other children unclean whose parents are doing quite sufficient to keep their children clean if it were not for this constant infestation.

School.Dept.No. of ExaminationsNits only.Nits and Vermin (head)
GascoigneInfants1170964
Boys1434301
Girls132218811
North St.Infants982571
Boys1088172
Girls1062846
CastleInfants45249—
Boys
Girls
WestburyInfants1216787
Boys76913—
Girls12421207
RippleInfants1127613
Boys793181
Girls11741163
C.of E.Infants550812
Boys420171
Girls4201122
St. Joseph'sInfants705987
SS. Mary's &Boys668501
Ethelburga'sGirls
CambellInfants9397321
Senior
Faircross—45444—
Park ModernMixed46053