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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 1939
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Croydon]
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The Occupation Centre.
Owing to the outbreak of the war the Occupation
Centre did not reopen as usual for the Autumn term.
It was reopened on the 13th October 1939 with
one teacher in charge for si:c children.
On the 1st April 1940 it reopened after the
vacation for 20 children with three teachers.
The St. Christopher's Special School
The Children were evacuated to the Constitutional
Camp at Hopton near Gt. Yarnouth in September. The
numbers have gradually decreased from fifty to twenty
eight at the present time.
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