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To the Chairman and Members of the Urban Distric
Council of Dagenham.
Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentlemen,
I beg to submit my report on the health and sanitary
circumstances of the district for the year 19.30.
Early in the year the last of the houses of the Dagenham
portion of the Bccontrec Housing Estate was completed, the
total number of houses on the estate in this district being 1
The year was one in which there was considerable development
of the health services. On April 12th, the Hecontrcc Clinic «
opened, providing for Maternity and Child Welfare and School
Medical Services. In October, the Dagenham Clinic, providing
lor similar services, was completed, and opened on Novenilxr 1st.
At Five Elms, an Out-Patient Department of the King Gconjc
Hospital, Uford, was erected, and opened on 3/1/31. One portion
of this building is reserved for the services provided by Kin;
George Hospital, the other is used for the Maternity and Child
Welfare services of the Local Authority and by the Essex County
Council for School Clinics and Tuberculosis Services. The Isolation
Hospital extensions were sulliciently advanced for the formal
opening to take place on 28/2/31.
Additional clinics have been opened to keep pace with the
demands made by the increasing population. Services established
for the first time during the year include bacteriological
examination of throat swabs at the Laboratory at the Public
Health Offices, and Schick testing and immunisation against
diphtheria. On the Maternity and Child Welfare side, the most
important extensions have been the opening of an Artificial Sunlight
Clinic, the establishment of Dental Clinics and of a Massage
and Remedial Exercises Clinic.
Little additional work accrued to this department as a result
of the Local Government Act, 1929, the only section affecting it
being section 2(a) which transferred to the Maternity and Child
Welfare Authority, the functions under Part I of the Children