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9
COUNTY BOROUGH OF EAST HAM
PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
REPORT
of the
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
For the year 1926.
SUMMARY OF NURSING ARRANGEMENTS, HOSPITAL AND OTHER
INSTITUTIONS AVAILABLE FOR THE DISTRICT.
Professional Nursing in the Home.
(a) General.—Excellent work is carried out by the Nurses
attached to the branch Home in Katherine Road of the Plaistow
Maternity Charity to which the Local Authority make no grant.
(b) For Infectious Diseases, e.g., Measles, etc., no provision
is made.
Midwlves.
No Midwives are subsidised by the Authority, but a large
amount of the Midwifery work is undertaken by 26 Nurses of
the Plaistow Maternity Charity, in addition to 12 Midwives who
have private practice in the Borough, and 5 practising in the
North Woolwich area attached to Sir Henry Tate's Home.
Clinics and Treatment Centres.
The Maternity and Child Welfare Department at the " White
House "provided by the Council is in charge of a Lady Assistant
Medical Officer, who also supervises the work of the Health
Visitors. For report see pp. 40—56.
Infant Consultations and Ante-Natal Clinics are conducted
daily. Branch Clinics are also held once a week at Wesleyan
Church Hall, Manor Park; St. John's Schoolroom, North
Woolwich ; and St. George's Hall, Masterman Road.
At the present time there is no Day Nursery in the Borough.
The School Clinics are referred to in the report on the School
Medical Service pp. 74—76.