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Barking 1940
[Report of the School Medical Officer for Barking]
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(5) FOLLOWING - UP.
This has been carried out successfully
under particularly trying conditions, partly due
to interruptions by frequent day raids, partly
owing to the number of evacuating and returning
families and partly owing to the number of
damaged houses which people were obliged to
evacuate and despite the considerable help we
have had from the billeting authorities it has
taken time to trace these people at their new
addresses. In spite of these obstacles much
valuable work has been done by your Health
Visitors and School Nurses.
(6) ARRANGEMENTS FOR TREATMENT.
(a) Minor Ailments. These have befen
carried on at Woodward and Central Clinics, both
of them also being used simultaneously as First
Aid Posts. It was not thought (during 1940) that
the demand was sufficiently great to re-open your
third Minor Ailments Clinic at Porters Avenue,
and children who would otherwise have attended
there were seen at Woodward Clinic. The full
six sessions por week were held at both clinics.
MINOR AILMENTS CLINICS, YEARS 1938, 1959 and 1940.
The following Table summarises the work of the Minor Ailments Clinics in respect of public elementary school-children, and gives a comparison with the years 1938 and 1939.
| Year. | Clinic. | No. of days Clinic was open. | No.of Attendances. | Daily Average Attendance . | No.of cases dealt with. | Total no. of Attend-ances. | Total No. of cases dealt with. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1938 | CENTRAL | 307 | 14,961 | 48.7 | 3,316 | 49,594 | 9,985 |
| HUMPHREY | - | - | - | - | |||
| WOODWARD | 307 | 25,843 | 84.1 | 5,099 | |||
| PORTERS | 203 | 8,790 | 43.3 | 1,570 | |||
| 1939 | CENTRAL | 321 | 8,035 | 25.0 | 2,376 | 34,781 | 7,158 |
| HUMPHREY | 122 | 15 | 0,1 | 4 | |||
| WOODWARD | 307 | 16,033 | 52.2 | 3,182 | |||
| PORTERS | 206 | 10,698 | 51.9 | 1,596 | |||
| 1940 | CENTRAL | 321 | 4,863 | 15.1 | 1,380 | 14,827 | 2,930 |
| HUMPHREY | 365 | 331 | 0.9 | 100 | |||
| WOODWARD | 306 | 9,633 | 31.4 | 1,450 | |||
| PORTERS | - | - | - | - |
Humphrey Clinic was opened for Minor Ailments purposes
on 3.9.39.
Porters Avenue Minor Ailments Clinic was closed on 2.9.39.
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