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Barking 1930
[Report of the School Medical Officer for Barking]
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Barking Town Urban District Council.
PUBLIC HEALTH OFFICES,
BARKING, ESSEX.
May, 1931.
To the Chairman and Members of the
Local Education Authority.
Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen,
It is one of the most important duties of your Medical
Officer to submit to you an annual report on the public medical
services you maintain, and this is the fourth such report I have had
the honour to submit to you.
These annual reports are apt to be very dry reading, but they
contain a lot of useful information and are .drawn up to comply
with the requirements of the Board of Education.
The year 1930 has been a very important one in the history
of Barking, and, in addition to the importance of this report from