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East Ham 1946
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for East Ham]
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GENERAL AND SPECIAL HOSPITALS AND
CHILDREN,S HOMES.
ARRANGEMENTS FOR TREATMENT.
(a) Provided by Local Authority, (6) Maternity, (c) Orthopaedic,
(d) Ear, Nose and Throat, (e) Puerperal Pyrexia, (f) Ophthalmia
Neonatorum.
There are no further comments to make on existing arrangements.
Particulars have been set out in previous reports.
(g) Runwell Mental Hospital.
(East Ham and Southend-on-Sea Joint Hospital Board).
Mental patients are accommodated in Runwell Mental Hospital,
Essex, belonging to the County Boroughs of East Ham and Southend
on-Sea.
Statistics and other information relating to the Hospital are
contained in the Annual Report for 1946.
(h) Smallpox.
(i) East Ham Memorial Hospital.
Statistics from the Hospital report for the year 1946 are as
follows:—