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duties from Wembley being a "neutral" area voluntary
evacuation and reception having gone on constantly,
called for unusual welfare services at the clinics
and domiciliary services by the Health Visitors,
and the supervision of billeting accommodation,
housing and sanitary matters by the Sanitary
Inspectors. In accordance with instructions there
has been constant co-operation of the civil, Navy,
Anny and Air Force authorities and every opportunity
has been taken to share and exchange all information
and advice, while pamphlets have been written and
distributed dealing with particular subjects as have
become necessary.
During the intensive national campaign to obtain
blood-donors Monks Park Clinic was loaned to the
central authorities as an empanelling station where
volunteers were registered and blood tests taken for
the grouping of donors. The thanks of the authorities
Were conveyed to the Council in a letter from the
Group Officer in which it was stated that sufficient
promises from prospective donors covering estimated
requirements had been obtained at this centre.
Infectious Diseases: From time to time at the
meetings of the Public Health Committee reference has
been made to the very low incidence of infectious
disease during the whole of 1939, particularly after
the temporary disorganisation of school attendance.
Tentative opinion is that these factors are not
unconnected - war, disorganisation of school attendance
and absence of infectious disease-but in due course,
perhaps, one will be able to give some time to the
consideration of this low incidence of the infectious
diseases during, at any rate, the first year of the
war.
The rather endemic incidence of Scarlet Fever
at Oliver Goldsmith school during 1937 and 1938 has
quite disappeared - as was forecast in the last report,
the number of cases in quarterly periods during 1939
being only 7, 4, 1, 1.
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