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No action has been taken in Leyton by any local Association
in connection with the Notification of Births Act.
MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE.
A circular letter from the Local Government Board intimating
that an estimate had been laid before Parliament for a
grant to be distributed by the Board in aid of the expenditure of
local authorities and voluntary agencies in respect of institutions
or other provisions for maternity and child welfare was considered,
but action was adjourned for the present.
OUTBREAKS OF INFECTIOUS DISEASE.
No case of Plague, Cholera, or Smallpox, or any serious
outbreak of epidemic disease has occurred in the district.
SMALL-POX.
Since March 5th, 1913, Leyton has been in the indefensible
position of being without hospital accommodation for cases of
Small-pox. Two proposals lor dealing with cases have occupied
the attention of the Council, one being that we should again join
West Ham, as in the days before our agreement with the Metropolitan
Asylums Board; and the other that we should become a
constitutent authority of the South Mimms Hospital. Both
schemes however have been rejected, and in the meantime the
public will be exposed to the risk of an epidemic of Small-pox
should any cases be imported into the district. Such an outbreak,
even if it did not actually cause loss of life, would certainly
be costly and troublesome to extinguish.
May I again point out that there is urgent need of hospital
provision for cases of Small-pox ; to wait for the occurrence of
an outbreak before filling this need is to risk disaster.