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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 1942

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Barking]

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The following table shows the amount of
work done as compared with the previous year, and
additional information as to Dental and Orthopaedic
services ia also included:-

Table: INSPECTION BY MEDICAL OFFICERS.

INSPECTION BY MEDICAL OFFICERS.

Number of Attendances.1st Inspection.Re-Inspection.Total number of Treatments.
194119421941194219411942.19411942.
893189402023582144241272211127
Number of defects treated:-1941.1942.
Scabies.128
Impetigo.61
Plantar Warts.1518
Errors of Refraction and Squint.2415
Nose & Throat cases.1314
Miscellaneous.47253974
(Including Minor Ailments).
Dental Treatment.
(a) Number of Children Inspected.154
(b) " " " referred for treatment.64
(c) " " " treated.51
Orthopaedic Treatment.
(a) Number of cases referred.12
(b) " " " treated:-
Hospital8
Camp3

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Hospitalisation.
The number of children who received treatment
under our arrangement with the St, Thomas's Hospital
is as follows:-
Godalming 30
London 1
Until September, 1942, parents were allowed
to visit their children at the Camp at week-ends, being
conveyed by coach from Barking. This arrangement was
cancelled owing to the Minister of War Transport issuing
an instruction that all excursions by road would be discontinued,
To replace such excursions by road a new scries
of combined rail-road excursions were installed. The first
was arranged for the 1st October, 1942, and thereafter at
monthly intervals, giving parents and others who wished to
visit the Camp, an opportunity to do so.
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