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Immunisation against whooping cough was commenced last year, but the
numbers so immunised were comparatively few and it is, therefore, not yet possible
to give a considered opinion on this service.
It is now possible to immunise for measles, but this is not practicable upon a
large scale, and as yet can only be undertaken in a relatively few selected cases.
(s) 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 number of new cases medically examined in 1937 totalled 1,156.
(t) Infant Life Protection (under Part I of the Children Act, 1908, as amended by
Part V of the Children and Young Persons Act, 1932).—Infant Life Protection Officers
pay visits to foster parents during the day and during the evening.
During the year there was one prosecution of a woman who had undertaken
for reward the nursing and maintenance of a certain infant under the age of nine years
apart from its parents, and who was a person who was required to give notice to the
Barking Corporation that she had changed her address, and had failed to give this
notice within the requisite forty-eight hours.
It cannot be too clearly understood that anybody who undertakes for reward
the nursing and maintenance of an infant under the age of nine years, apart from its
parents or having no parents, must notify the local authority in writing seven days
before the receipt of the infant in the case of the first infant proposed to be received
and forty-eight hours before receipt in the case of any other infant, unless the infant
is received in an emergency, which makes it impossible for so long a notice to be given.
Notice must be given to the Authority too when the foster-parent changes his
or her address, when the child is removed to the care of another person, or if the
child should die.