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When conditions arise which are detrimental to the
public health, efforts must be concentrated on ameliorating
such conditions, and the preventive side of the work may be
neglected. This is incorrect. The staff—medical and nonmedical—has
at all times cheerfully worked extra hours to
overtake these sudden emergencies, but the fact that this is
necessary should be reported to the Council.
(c) New Premises:—
(i) New Day Nursery:—These new premises situated in
Hubert Road, South Wimbledon, are in course of erection,
and should be ready for occupation about May, 1928.
(ii) New Conjoint Clinic:—The proposal to erect a Conjoint
Clinic for School Medical and Maternity and Child
Welfare work is a further effort to obtain more efficient
work by centralisation. The present premises are scattered
and under the new scheme there should be not only economy
in rent, caretaking, etc., but in administration. At the new
Clinic all the work of the Maternity and Child Welfare
Section would be concentrated, and the Queen's Road Centre,
Southey Hall Clinic, the Dental Clinic and the laboratory
would be transferred.
A site has been acquired by the Council in Pelham Road,
admirably situated and capable of further development, if
required. Sketch plans have already been forwarded both
to the Ministry of Health and Board of Education and final
approval only is awaited. The premises should be ready
for occupation by the end of 1928.
(d) New Acts and Regulations:—
1.—Public Health Act, 1925—Certain sections adopted
(v. p. 15).
2.—Public Health (Smoke Abatement) Act, 1926.
3.—Births and Deaths Registration Act, 1926. This
Act came into force on 1st July, 1927, and requires,
inter alia, the registration of still-births.
4.—Public Health (Notification of Puerperal Fever and
Puerperal Pyrexia) Regulations, 1926. The Scheme
submitted by the Wimbledon Borough Council for
the treatment of such cases has been approved by
the Ministry of Health.
5.—Public Health (Infectious Diseases) Regulations,
1927. These regulations amend the procedure in
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