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The question of immunisation against measles is being considered and the
various methods and results obtained are being reviewed by your Consultant
Pathologist.
(q) Minor Ailments.—Your Minor Ailments Clinics have been held at two
centres and here babies and toddlers have been treated whenever necessary;
so also have certain conditions in nursing mothers.
The following table shows the work which has been carried out at your Minor
Ailments Clinics :—
No. of cases seen by medical officers :— Central Clinic. Woodward Clinic.
(a) New cases 273 822
(b) Old cases 299 607
No. of attendances for treatment 807 2,191
It will be seen that the total number of new cases medically examined has
grown from 895 in 1935 to 1,095 in 1936.
(r) Infant Life Protection (under Part I of the Children Act, 1908, as amended by
Part V of the Children and Young Persons Act, 1932).—Your Health Visitors and
Chief Sanitary Inspector are all Infant Life Protection Visitors, and regular visits
are paid to all children coming within the meaning of the Act.
To further the work of your Infant Life Protection Visitors, arrangements are
being made for foster parents to be visited at the time when supervision of the
children is most important, i.e., at night.
(s) Maternity and Nursitig Homes.—During the year no less than 366 children
were born in your Maternity Home.
The Upney (Maternity) Hospital is under the supervision of your Medical Officer
of Health, and in addition your Deputy Medical Officer of Health pays regular visits.
Visits are also made by your specialist Consultant in Obstetrics and Gynaecology,
Mr. J. V. O'Sullivan.
Although for the year 1936 there was no Resident Medical Officer at this
Hospital, I shall be in a position to relate in my next year's Report that a Resident
Medical Officer was appointed at the beginning of January, 1937.
No nursing homes are maintained in the Borough.