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Play Material In the Mental and Physical Development of Children under Five",
and although we did not gain a prize, the competition was stimulating and the
essays reflected the amount of knowledge the students had gained during their
training.

Nursery and Child Minders' Regulation Act
There are no registered child minders in the Borough.
MIDWIFERY
During 1962, six Midwives were employed in the Barking area. Twenty-one
pupils did their district training and a total of 300 women were confined, which
represents 30% of the births occurring in the Borough.
Pupils who took Part II training on our district came from « variety of training
schools including:-
Queen Mary's Hospital for the East End, Stratford E. 15.
Plaistow Maternity Hospital, Howards Road, E. 13.
Ilford Maternity Hospital, Eastern Avenue, Ilford.
St. Andrew's Hospital, Devons Road, Bow E.3.
St. John's Hospital, Chelmsford.
Oldchurch Hospital, Romford, Essex.
St. Mary's Hospital, Leeds.
Barking Hospital is a Part II Training Hospital for midwifery.
Your Medical Officer of Health is approved by the Central Midwives Board to
give the requisite public health lectures and a series of these have been conducted
at the Barking Hospital.
Arrangements are made on request for a midwife to attend ante-natal sessions
at General Practitioner Obstetrician's surgeries, thus enabling doctor and midwife
to work as a team in the patients interest.
I am only too happy to encourage this co-operation and am glad to see an increasing
number of requests for the services of a midwife for this purpose.
I should like to take this opportunity of expressing my gratitude to all our midwives
for the assiduous discharge of their duties which, in no small way, contributed
to the low number of infant deaths recorded in 1962.
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