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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
Croydon 1938
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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f 1 Babies (Boys and Girls). * Plus one sink.
Cost of the School Medical Service.
The gross cost of the medical, dental, and nursing services
was £13,878; from this an income of £845 should be deducted,
making a nett cost of £13,033. The rateable value of the Borough
in 1938 was £2,328,293. The Government grant is 50 per cent,
of the expenditure, hence the actual cost to the rates was £6,517,
i.e., a rate of 0.68 pence. The nett cost of these services to the
rates for 1938 per child on the school registers was 5s. 0.4d.
The figures do not include £300 for Medical Inspection
(Higher Education) and for Blind persons £744.
Cost of Special Schools.
Schools maintained by the Council, £9,220; Contributions
to schools under other authorities, £4,432; Loans charges, £579;
Other expenses (travelling, etc.), £35; Income from parents'