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Hampstead 1939

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Hampstead Borough]

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15. Home Helps.
Number of cases in which home helps have been provided:—
35—under scheme of the Hampstead Borough Council.
16. Maternal Deaths.
(a) Number of women who died in, or in consequence of,
childbirth:—
(i) from sepsis :—Nil.
(ii) from other causes:—1.
(b) Number of these cases which died :
(i) at home :—Nil.
(ii) in institutions:—1.
17. Administration of Part XIII. of the Public Health (London) Act,
1936.
(a) Number of persons on the Register who were receiving
children for reward at the end of the year:—11.
(b) Number of children on the Register :
(i) at the end of the year:—17.
(ii) who died during the year:—2.
(iii) on whom inquests were held :—Nil.
(c) Number of Infant Protection Visitors at the end of the
year who were:—
(i) Health Visitors :—5.
(ii) Female, other than Health Visitors :—Nil.
(iii) Male :—Nil.
(d) Number of persons (in addition to or in lieu of Visitors
under (c) above) or societies authorised to visit under the
proviso to Section 258 (3) of the Public Health (London)
Act, 1936:—Nil.
(e) Proceedings taken:—
No. of Cases. Act and Section under which
proceedings were taken.
Nil. —
(f) Number of cases in which the local authority has given a
sanction:
(i) under (a), (b) or (c) of Section 259 of the Public
Health (London) Act, 1936:—Nil.
(g) Number of orders obtained under Section 261 of the Public
Health (London) Act, 1936.
(i) from a court of summary jurisdiction or from a
single justice:—Nil.