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Orthopaedic Clinics.
The Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon attends about four times
a year to see cases referred by the School and by the Maternity and
Child Welfare Authorities.
Remedial Exercises and Massage Clinic.
Two sessions are held weekly at the Ford Road Clinic, namely,
on Monday afternoons and Thursday mornings ; and a weekly
session held on Wednesday alternately morning and afternoon at
the Becontree Clinic.
Light Clinic.
During the winter months, for two sessions a week, a Light
Clinic is held both at the Becontree and at the Dagenham Clinics.
Treatment is carried out for children of under school age and of
school age referred from the various clinics.
Professional Nursing in the Home.
(a) General.
For particulars of the Dagenham District Nursing Association
which is the only local service for providing general nursing, see
page 20 of the 1931 Annual Report.
A total of 604. general nursing cases were treated during the
year, involving 5,538 visits to the homes. 375 midwifery cases
and 124 maternity cases were nursed, these patients receiving ?
total of 7,783 visits during the year. In addition, these patien s
paid a total of 1,554 visits to the ante-natal clonic held .
House. Altogether then, the number of persons attended to durinf.
the year was 1,103, to whom 14,875 visits were paid.
(b) Nursing of Cases of Infectious Diseases.
Most of the notifiable infectious cases are removed to the
Isolation Hospital. In the case of the non-notifiable iniec ion ^
nursing is provided by special nurses of the District JNur
Association.
Mid wives.
There are no midwives in the district employed by the Local
Authority. At the end of the year there were 20 midwives living
in the district whose practices were confined almost entirely
this area.