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(3) Nursing in the Home.
Owing to lack of financial support the Homchurch Nursing
Association disbanded during the year.
There are now only two nursing associations functioning in the
Urban District, viz. (i) the Upminster and Cranham, and (ii) the
Iiainham Association.
The remaining parts ot the District which are not served by
any scheme for nursing in the home contain about two thirds of
the total population.
(4) Treatment Centres and Clinics.
Maternity and Child Welfare Clinics are carried on by the
County Council which is the Welfare Authority at the following
centres:—
(i) North Street School.
(ii) Church Hall, Park Lane.
(iii) 61, Athelstan Road, Harold Wood.
(iv) St. Lawrence Hall, Upminster.
(v) Church Hall, Rainham.
(5) Hospitals.
An E.M.S. Hospital has been established in the precincts of
the Hospital in this District which is owned by the County Borough
of West Ham.
This E.M.S. Hospital contains 500 beds and is staffed by a
Medical Superintendent and three assistant medical officers.
SECTION C.
The Council recognising the importance of maintaining as far
as practicable the general Public Health work in the District have
decided that the Public Health staff should continue their normal
activities as far as possible.
Three of the Sanitary Inspectors have therefore spent most of
their time on normal duties. Such additional work as paying
visits to occupied houses to ascertain their suitability as billets for
homeless persons; visiting public air-raid shelters; inspecting foodstuffs
which may have been damaged in consequence of enemy
action being added to their work.
The fourth Sanitary Inspector has devoted much time to lecturing
and other A.R.P. duties.