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CONVALESCENCE AND
RECUPERATIVE HOLIDAYS
National Health Service Act
Arrangements were made for patients as indicated:—
Section 28: 3 Shoreditch Holiday Home
12 Friendly Society Convalescent Home, Heme Bay
1 Samuel Lewis Home, Walton
1 St. Michael's, Clacton
16 Bell Memorial Home, Lancing
6 T.B. cases placed by Spero
1 St. Joseph's Convalescent Home, Bournemouth
2 Surrey Convalescent Home, Seaford
1 Bannow, St. Leonards
Section 22:
1 Mother with children—Lennox House, Southsea
1 Mother with children—Shoreditch Holiday Home
2 Children—Stamford HL1 Children's Home, Thorpe Bay
School Health Service
91 school children were admitted to recuperative holiday homes during the year.
Most of the cases referred by the medical officers and general practitioners for convalescent
holidays are children from homes showing economic or social stress, and few
only of the children are sent on purely medical grounds.
Dagenham Children's Care Committee
Seaford Holiday Centre
Two parties of school children went to St. Mary's Bay Holiday Centre, Romney
Marsh, Kent, for a holiday during the summer. 44 children attended the centre this
year. The arrangements are made by the Dagenham Children's Care Committee and
all children are examined at the clinics before they leave for their holiday.
Camp Schools
28 children were examined by school medical officers before being admitted or
re-admitted to camp schools.
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