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8, SKIN DISEASES.
(a) Scabies. The incidence of Scabies decreased during the
year under review due, I think, to our arrangements for the followingup
of suspected cases and the provision of baths and out-patient
treatment. Perusal of the statistics shows a fall of thirty three
per cent in such cases.
(b) Other Skin Diseases. Reference was made in my Report for
1942 to the inauguration of a clinic specially for the treatment of
skin diseases.
A further step forward in your health services has
been achieved by the appointment to your consultant staff of
Dr. Arthur Burrows, Specialist Consultant in skin diseases at the
London Hospital. Dr. Burrows attends weekly, his first session being
held on the l6th February, 1943, and up to the end of that year, Two
hundred and seventy one school children were seen by him.
Treatment recommended by your Consultant is carried
out at the treatment clinics held on Tuesday and Thursday mornings
and during 1943, One thousand two hundred and seventy five attendances
were made by three hundred and fourteen school children.
By adaptation of the premises at your Central Clinic,
oases of skin diseases can now be segregated from other out-patients.
This procedure was adopted from the 11th October, 1943, and up to the
end of December, One hundred and eleven cases received One thousand
and forty one treatments.

9. NUTRITION.
On the 31st December, 1943, the number of children attending
Elementary Schools in Barking was 10,718, of whom 9,273 had been
medically examined at School. The standard of nutrition disclosed by
such examinations has in most cases proved to be satisfactory, but as
pointed out in my survey last year, there are no generally recognised
standards of Nutrition, and classification remains in the hands of
Medical Officers whose standard of values has been fixed by experience
outside Barking, and in some instances, outside England.
After allowing for the individual differences amongst
Medical Officers at such examinations it is still encouraging to note
(see table on Page 13 of this Report) that malnutrition in its worse
sense still remains infrequent amongst children attending the
elementary schools of your Town.
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