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Hospitals, Public and Voluntary:
Infectious Disease: West Kent Joint Isolation Hospital.
General Hospitals (Voluntary) : Sidcup Cottage Hospital
and Cray Valley Hospital.
Midwifery and Maternity Services: Under the control of the
Kent County Council.
Institutional Provision for Mothers or Children: Under Kent
County Council.
Health Visitors: One employed by District Council. Four
Health Visitors also employed by County Council.
Infant Life Protection (under Part I of Children Act, 1908,
as amended by Children and Young Persons Act, 1932):
Under control of the Kent County Council.
, Orthopaedic Treatment: Under Kent County Council.
Nursing- Homes Registration Act, 1927: The Medical Officer of
the Local Supervising Authority under this Act is P. N.
Cave, M.A., M.D., MLR.C.S., L.R.C.P., D.P.H.
Action Taken during the year under this Act, and the arrangements
made for the supervision of Maternity and Nursing
Homes registered under the Act: Routine inspection by
Health Visitor, and inspections by Medical Officer of Health
as required.
HEALTH REPORT FOR 1937.
Area and Population.
The Urban District of Chislehurst and Sidcup was constituted
under the Kent County Review Order, 1934, and came
into existence on the 1st April, 1934.
It comprises the former Urban District of Sidcup and the
former Urban District of Chislehurst, with the exception of the
Pettswood area, south of the old London, Chatham and Dover
railway line (now part of the Southern Railway system), which
was transferred to the newly constituted Urban District of
Orpington.
Also included in the Urban District are the old Rural
Parishes of Mottingham and North Cray, the greater part
of St. Paul's Cray, and a small portion of St. Mary Cray
and Ol-pington, all of which previously formed part of the
Bromley Rural District.
A small portion of the Borough of Bromley on the western
boundary of Chislehurst was also transferred to the Chislehurst
and Sidcup Urban District.
Local Census.
A local census of population was taken in the middle of
the year 1936, and the figure obtained was 54,859.
This compares with the figure of 54,300 as estimated' by
the Registrar-General.
The District has an area of 8,950 acres, the Rateable Value
is £499,427, and the sum represented by a penny sate is
£1,930.