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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
West Ham 1931
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for West Ham]
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Open Air Schools.
There are two Open Air Schools, one at Fyfield (Residential),
near Ongar, to accommodate 80 boys and 60 girls, and one within
the Borough at Crosby Road (Day), to accommodate 60 girls.
No changes have taken place during the year in the hospital
services.
Vaccination Acts, 1867 to 1898.
The following is a summary of the work carried out under the above mentioned Acts during the year 1931.
| No. of Cases in Birth Lists received during the year | 6241 |
| No. of Certificates of Vaccination received | 2242 |
| No. of Certificates of Postponement owing to— Health of Child | 340 |
| Condition of House | — |
| Prevalence of Infectious Disease | 6 |
| No. of Certificates under Section 2 of Vaccination Act, 1898, and No. of Statutory Declarations under Section 1 of the Vaccination Act, 1907 | 3152 |
| No. of Certificates of Insusceptibility or of having had Smallpox | 12 |
| No of Cases— | |
| Parents removed out of District | 795 |
| Otherwise not found | 261 |
| No. of Entries in Lists sent to Public Vaccinator | 1942 |