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County Borough of Croydon.
ANNUAL REPORT
of the
SCHOOL MEDICAL OFFICER
for the Year ending December 31$t, 1938.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
I have the honour to present to you my Eleventh Annual
Report on the work carried out by the School Medical Service.
The work has been continued on the same administrative
lines as have been described in previous reports, and there have
been no developments or modifications. The time of the Medical
Officers has been so fully occupied that it has not been possible
to undertake any special investigations, although the sphere of
school medicine is one which offers many interesting lines of
thought, that, in less strenuous times, would repay following up.
At the end of the year the Coloma School was included in the
school medical scheme, and a yearly medical inspection of all
scholars in that school will henceforth be carried out.
As was expected, measles became prevalent during the first
quarter of the year, and in certain districts, notably the Beulah
and Ecclesbourne schools districts, reached epidemic proportions.
This his disease shows a two-yearly cycle of incidence in Croydon,
but the cycle for the Northern part of the Borough does not
always coincide with the Southern part.