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Nursery and Child Minders' Regulation Act
There are two registered child minders in the Borouah.
Women's Welfare Clinic
Special sessions staffed by a medical officer and nurse trained
in contraceptive techniques are held for women who are referred for
medical reasons.
During the year 262 patients made 572 attendances.
Midwifery
During 1964-5 Midwives were employed in the Barking area
Twenty pupils did their district training and a total of 287 women
were confined, which represents 27% of the births occurring in the
Borough.
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 at the
Barking Hospital
Requests have been made by several G.P.'s for a midwife to
attend ante-natal sessions at their surgeries.
I am only too happy to encourage this co-operation.
Supervision of Midwifes
Miss E. O'Connor, Superintendent of the Lady Rayleigh Training
Home, has continued to undertake the non-medical supervision
of midwives.
Health Visiting
In 1964 our Health Visiting staff was further depleted by 2
retirements plus one Health Visitor moving to Gloucestershire. In
spite of numerous advertisements none of these have been replaced
This places an even greater burden of work on the others and
prevents expansion of the work in this field.
Selective home visits are now the 'rule' and more time is
spent by the Health Visitor with the families who appear to need
their help.
During 1964 we have again received nursing students from
various training centres for observation visits. The Superintendent
Health Visitor has continued to give lectures to Student Nurses at
Rush Green Hospital and to the Student District Nurses/Midwives
from the Lady Rayleigh Training Home.
The part time state registered nurses employed in clinic duties
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