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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
East Ham 1925
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for East Ham]
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Five cases were notified as follows :—
| Notified. | Treated. | Vision Impaired. | Vision Impaired. | Total Blindness. | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| At Home. | At Hospital. | ||||
| 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
| 2 | 1 | - | 1 | - | — |
| 3 | — | 1 | 1 | - | — |
| - | 1 | - | — | ||
| 5 | — | 1 | — | — | |
No deaths occurred as a result of Ophthalmia Neonatorum.
Careful enquiry is made regarding all cases of Ophthalmia
Neonatorum, and, so far as is desirable, such cases are kept under
the observation of the Health Visitors.
Voluntary Associations.
The Invalid Children's Aid Association has rendered invaluable
help to the work of the Centre by arranging for holidays in
the country for delicate children referred from the Clinics.
Mid wives Acts, 1902 and 1918.
The Assistant Medical Officer of the Maternity and Child Welfare
Centre is also Inspector of Midwives under the Borough
Council, in this capacity maintaining a general supervision over the
work of all Midwives practising in East Ham.
Forty-one Midwives notified their intention to practise in the
Borough during 1925. Of these, 26 worked in connection
with the Maternity Charity and District Nurses' Home, Plaistow,
and its branches, and four with the Sir Henry Tate Nurses' Home
at Silvertown. Eleven practised independently.
Twenty-one visits of inspection were made, and conditions on
the whole were satisfactory.