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Dental Clinic.
Seventy-six children under 5 years of age, and 30
expectant or nursing mothers, received treatment at the
Dental Clinic.
Ophthalmia Neonatorum.
Appendix XI. gives statistical details of the 3 cases
notified under the Public Health (Ophthalmia Neonatorum)
Regulations, 1926. Hospital treatment was
provided in one case. This was the first case to receive
hospital treatment under the Local Authority's scheme.
Impairment of vision in any of the cases fortunately did
not result.
Diarrhcea and Enteritis.
Two deaths of children under two years of age were
recorded during 1932. Fortunately this serious disease
in infants was not prevalent in the Borough during the
year. In 1931 the mortality rate per 1,000 babies born
in Bromley was 11; for 1932 the rate is 3 compared with
6.6 for the whole of England and Wales.
Children Act, 1908, Part I.
The following particulars have been extracted from
the records kept with reference to foster-children and
foster-parents:—
(a) No. of persons receiving children for
reward on the register at the end
of 1932 39
(b) No. of children on the register:—
(i) At the end of the year 1932 42
(ii) Who died during 1932 1
Certain minor contraventions of the provisions of
the Act were remedied by preliminary warning letters
in 6 instances.
The Health Visitors are Infant Protection Visitors
for the purposes of the Act, and as a routine matter all
boarded-out children are visited once a quarter. In all
168 visits were made in this respect.
The above Act has been amended by the Children
and Young Persons Act, 1932, which came into force on
1st January, 1933. The administration of the section of