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BOROUGH OF BARKING
A N N U A L REPORT
of the
School Medical Officer for the Borough of
Barking, in the County of Essex, for the
year ended 31st December, 1942. (War Edition).
Public Health Department,
Barking, Essex.
August, 1943
To the Chairman & Members of the
Local Education authority.
Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen,
I have pleasure in submitting my report for the
year ended 3lst December, 1942,
This year is a part of the third year and part
of the fourth year of the war and from this standpoint this
report, amongst others of a similar nature, will stand out
as documents of historic interest and value.
First it will show that the services you
established before the war have stood the test of war-time
conditions, that they were sufficiently well founded to stand
the stress of war and at the same time, sufficiently adaptable
to meet the chanced conditions brought about by the war.
I believe that you will find, as the historians of
the future will find, that this report shows that the
children of school-age who have lived into the fourth year
of this war have maintained their health, their strength and
their vitality, that they have not been adversely affected by
war-weariness nor by food-rationing.
As a matter of fact with the exception of
tuberculosis, the increase in which is a matter for disquiet,
continued over-leaf.
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