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East Ham 1940

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for East Ham]

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CHILD LIFE PROTECTION.
Sections 206 to 220 of the Public Health Act,1936.
(a) Number of persons who we.ro receiving children for reward, at the
end of the year.- 13.
(b) Number of children:
(i) at the end of the year - 12
(ii) who died during the year - Nil
(iii) on whom inquests were held during the year - Nil.
(c) Number of Child Protection Visitors at the end of the year
who were:
(i) Health Visitors - 7.
(ii) Female, other than Health Visitors - Nil
(iii) Male. - Nil.
(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 209 (2) of the Public Health Act, 1936. - Nil.
(e) Proceedings taken during Act and Section under
the year . which proceedings were
taken.
Nil. -
ORTHOPAEDIC TREATMENT.
Cases are referred to the East Ham Memorial Hospital and Queen
Mary's Hospital Stratford, under similar arrangements to the School
Medical Service.

REGISTRATION OF NURSING HOMES.

(SECTIONS 187 to 194 OF THE PUBLIC HEALTH ACT, 1936) Return of the work of the Council during 1940.

Number of Homes.Number of patients provided for;
Maternity Patients.Others.Totals.
Homes first registered during the year----
Homes on the register at the end of the year161420

The number of cases admitted and treated at the Nursing Home,
(Kelvingrove) in the Borough during 1940, was as follows:-
Maternity 9 Others 39.
25.