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Public Health Department,
Bow Road, E.
January 3rd, 1915.
Sir,
I beg to present the eighth Annual Report of my work—the first
under the Local Government Board's extended scheme for the Prevention
of Infantile Mortality.
The scheme includes visiting (1) Expectant mothers, (2) Infants
from birth up to school age, (3) Cases of zymotic enteritis (notifiable
1st June—30th September), and (4) Measles (from 1st January, 1916)
occurring in children under five years of age, (5) Ophthalmia neonatorum,
and (6) the provision of maternity centres for attendance for advice of
expectant and nursing mothers, and children under school age. Case
papers are sent from this Department weekly—in the case of births ;
as notifications are received—for zymotic enteritis and measles. Cases
of ophthalmia neonatorum are visited from this Department.
Poplar Infant Care Association
Undertake all the work south of East India Dock Road.
The Royal College of St. Katharines
Undertake all the work between East India Dock Road and Bow
Road.
The Public Health Department
Undertake all the work of north of Bow Road. The working
arrangement between the above bodies and this Department has proceeded
smoothly and harmoniously.
Still-births.
At your request, visits were paid to all cases notified diiring November
and December. It does not appear to me that any case is made out
(in our Borough, at any rate) for the theory that wives of soldiers, and
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