Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for East Ham]
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Voluntary Associations.
Appreciation and thanks are again gratefully accorded to the
Invalid Children's Aid Association for their co-operation with the
Maternity and Child Welfare department, and help in arranging
Convalescent Home treatment for delicate children.
Twenty-eight cases were referred to the I.C.A.A. and received
treatment.
Children Acts, 1908-32.
Administration of Part I of the Children Act, 1908, as amended by Part V
of the Children and Young Persons Act, 1932.
(a) Number of persons on the Register who were receiving children for reward
at the end of the year, 32.
(b) Number of children on the Register :
(i) at the end of the year, 36.
(ii) who died during the year, 1.
(iii) on whom inquests were held during the year, —
(c) Number of Infant Protection Visitors at the end of the year who were :
(i) Health Visitors, 7.
(ii) Female, other than Health Visitors, —
(iii) Male, —
(d) Number of persons (in addition to or in lieu of Visitors under (c) above)
or societies authorised to visit under the proviso to Section 2(2) of the Act
of 1908, —.
(e) Proceedings taken during the year :
No. of Cases. Act and Section under which
proceedings were taken.
Nil
(f) Number of cases in which the local authority has given a sanction during
the year :
(i) under (a) of Section 3 of the Act of 1908'
(ii) (b)
(iii) (c)
Nil
(g) Number of orders obtained during the year under Section 67 of the Act
of 1932:
(i) from a court of summary jurisdiction1
(ii) from a single justice
Nil