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General Provision of Health Services.
Full details of the Council's services have been given in
previous reports. As the National Health Service Act, 1946,
came into operation on the 5th July, 1948, only brief particulars
are given of the services before this date.
East Ham District Nursing Association.
From the "appointed day" by arrangements with the Council,
this work was carried out on an agency basis.
Hospitals.
Harts Sanatorium, The Infectious Diseases Hospital and the
accommodation at Oakleigh, Sunset Avenue, Woodford Green,
were vested in the Regional Hospital Board, as from 5/7/48.
Midwives Acts, 1902-1936.
The number of midwives who notified their intention to
practise in East Ham during 1948 was 39—of these 7 also indicated
that they would act as Maternity Nurses. Of the 39, 21 Worked
in connection with the Maternity Hospital and District Nurses'
Home, Plaistow, and its branches—2 at Sir Henry Tate Nurses'
Home, Silvertown—8 at East Ham Memorial Hospital—and
8 practised independently, including 7 Municipal Midwives.
Plaistow Maternity Hospital and District Nurses' Home.
Summary of cases, 1948:—
Midwifery 222 Monthly 97 Hospital 75
Silvertown & North Woolwich District Nursing Association.
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