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Inspections by Medical Officers.
Number of Attendances.
1st Insp. Re-Insp. Total number of treatments.
8,931 202 214 12,722
Number of defects treated
Scabies. 12
Impetigo. 6
Plantar Warts . 15
Errors of Refraction
& Squint. 24
Nosq & Throat Cases . 13
Miscellaneous. 4,725
Parents were allowed to visit their children
in the Camp at week-ends, being conveyed by coach from
Barking .
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Diphtheria Immunisation. The question arose in
January 1941 regarding the personnel to be employed at the
Camp in carrying out the task of immunising those children
who had not been inoculated before leaving Barking, and
whose parents had consented to this being done.
On your instructions arrangements were made with
the doctors carrying out the medical services at the Camp
to proceed with immunisation where necessary. During the
year 104 children were completely immunised and 125 primary
and 101 final Schick tests were performed in this period.
Hospitalisation. In-patient treatment of scholars
at the Camp was kindly undertaken by the Medical Committee
and Governors of St. Thomas's Hospital evacuated from
London to Godalming, who also placed at our disposal all the
facilities of the out-patients and special departments of the
hospital. In consequence of their kind offer and of the fact
that the Council were not to be called upon to pay for such
facilities you decided to add them to the list of hospitals
participating in the annual grant made to hospitals serving
the public of Barking.
Inspection of Camp. Dr. J. Alison Glover of the
Board of Education and Dr. M.S. Harvey of the Ministry of
Health visited the Camp School on 15th July 1941.
(14) CO-OPERATION.
During the year it has been a source of
satisfaction to myself and the members of my staff, that the
help and co-operation which has again been afforded during
the year has greatly assisted us in carrying out the work
connected with the various services undertaken by the Council
for improving the general health and physical fitness of
children attending schools in the Barking Area. This was
particularly emphasised early in 1941 when the Woodward Clinic
was destroyed and it became necessary to establish temporary
clinics nearby. The additional work and v/orry involved in
such process of transfer was to a considerable extent lightened
by the ready assistance afforded my department by many of the
members of the Council, the Head Teachers affected, and other
officers of the Council, to all of whom I proffer my sincere
thanks.
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