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(b) Sanitary Inspector.
There is one whole time Sanitary Inspector, Mr. H. Bousfield,
who holds the Sanitary Inspector's Certificate of the Royal Sanitary
Institute.
2. Nursing in the Home.
A. There is one district nurse-midwife maintained by the
Local Nursing Association in the Village. The nurse is supplied
by the Essex County Nursing Association to the funds of which the
County Council contribute.
B. No home nursing of Infectious cases is provided by the
Council.
3. Laboratory Facilities.
Under arrangements made by the Essex County Council
sputum, swabs and other pathological material are examined by Dr.
Beale, the County Pathologist, at the Laboratories, 96 Queen
Victoria Street, London, E.C.4. Reports are sent to the Doctors
submitting the sample, and a copy is forwarded to the Medical
Officer of Health.
Water, milk, and other foodstuffs may also be examined in
the Laboratories on the instructions of the Local Council.
4. Legislation in Force.
For details of the Special Orders, adoptive Acts, and Byelaws
in force in the District, see page 5 of the Annual Report for the
year 1930.
5. Hospitals.
Infectious Diseases.
The Romford Joint Hospital Board of which this Council is
a constituent authority, has provided an Isolation Hospital at Rush
Green, containing 150 beds.
During the year under consideration the cases admitted to
hospital from this District were 44 cases of Scarlet Fever, 29 of
Diphtheria, 2 of Puerperal Pyrexia, 2 of Erysipelas, 3 of Enteric
Fever, one of Acute Poliomyelitis, and one of Ophthalmia Neonatorum.
Smallpox.
The Romford Joint Hospital Board has has an agreement
since the 1st April, 1932, by which cases of Smallpox may be
admitted to the Orsett Smallpox Hospital.
During the year no case of Smallpox has occurred in this
District.