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Additional Clinics mentioned in Section (vii) above are referred
to in the respective Sections of this Report.
Tuberculosis Dispensary.—A dispensary is provided by the
Essex County Council at 130-132, Cranbrook Road. Three sessions
per week are held for adults and one session for children, viz.:—
For adults—Tuesday, 10 to 12 noon; Wednesday (workers
only), 7 to 8 p.m.; and Friday, 3 to 5 p.m.
For children—Wednesday, 10 to 12 noon.
2. (i) Maternity and Nursing Homes.
As a result of representation made to the Ministry of Health
under Section 9 (3) of the Nursing Homes Registration Act, 1927,
the duties under the Act were transferred from the Essex County
Council to the Ilford Borough Council as from the 1st October,
1930.
On the 1st January, 1935, there were 4 private registered
nursing homes in the district, 1 for maternity patients only, 2 for
maternity and medical or minor surgical cases, and the remaining
1 for medical and surgical cases.
On December 31st, 1935, there were three private registered nursing
homes in the district—two for maternity and medical or minor surgical
cases, and the other for medical and surgical cases.
A case of puerperal fever occurred at a private nursing home on 8th
October, the patient being removed to the London Hospital on the same
day, and discharged on 1st December.
On 13th October a case of puerperal pyrexia occurred. The patient
was conveyed to her home and on the next day was removed to Queen
Charlotte's Maternity Hospital, Isolation Block, Hammersmith, and died
on 21st October. The nursing home was then closed for maternity cases
as from 14th October.
On 18th October the daughter of the keeper (who resides nearby) of
the nursing home was notified as suffering from scarlet fever and had been
in the home. In consequence the keeper was instructed on 22nd October
to close the home for the admission of any further cases, and also the attendance
outside by nurses from the home (maternity or other) until the case
of scarlet fever was declared free of infection and disinfection carried out.
Disinfection was carried out on 9th November.