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3 (ii) Institutional Provision for Mothers and, Children.
There is one Institution in the Borough, and, although it is
not in any way connected officially with the Council, it receives a grant
of £249 per annum from the London County Council.
3 (iii) Health Visitors.
The Maternity and Child Welfare work of the Borough is divided
between the M. and C.W. section of the Public Health Department and
the Royal College of St. Katharine. The latter body is responsible for
approximately one-third of the Borough, namely, the central portion
lying between Bow Road and East India Dock Road.
With few exceptions, infants are visited on the nth day after birth,
or as soon as possible thereafter. An endeavour is made to pay eight
visits during the first year of life, six in the second year, four in the third
year, three in the fourth year, and one or two in the fifth year.
3 (iv) Child Life Protection, see page 124.
New Legislation.
Factories Act, 1937.
The Council delegated their powers to the Public Health Committee
and authorised the Medical Officer of Health and all the
Sanitary Inspectors to execute the provisions of the Act which have
to be administered by the Council.
London County Council (General Powers) Act, 1938.
Section 3 empowers a Sanitary Authority to provide temporary
shelter or house accommodation for occupants of houses where action
is being taken under Section 123 of the Public Health (London)
Act, 1936, for the destruction or removal of vermin.
Public Health (Aircraft) Regulations, 1938, came into operation
1st July, 1938.
These were primarily designed to prevent the introduction of
infectious diseases into this country through the medium of air-borne
traffic. Generally they resembled the Port Sanitary Regulations,
1933, which were made to secure a similar object in regard to waterborne
traffic.
The County of London Measles and Whooping Cough Regulations, 1938.
These regulations, requiring the notification by medical practitioners
of certain cases of Measles and Whooping Cough, were issued
by the Minister of Health under date 9th September, 1938.