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The following treatment centres in the district are under the control of
the County Council: —
(i) The Tuberculosis Dispensary.
(ii) The School Clinic.
(iii) The Orthopaedic Clinic. (Conjointly with the British Red
Cross Society).
(iv) The Mental Treatment Clinic.
These all find accommodation at The Shrubberies, High Road, South
Woodford.
(e) Hospitals. Public and Voluntary:—
Maternity.—There are no maternity hospitals in the district. Arrangements
have been made: —
(i) With Queen Mary's Hospital, Stratford, for the reception
of difficult cases and cases where the home conditions are
unsuitable for confinement.
(ii) WTith Waltham Joint Hospital, for the reception of cases
of Puerperal Pyrexia.
Children.—There is a children's ward of five beds at the Woodford
Jubilee Hospital.
Infectious Diseases.—Cases of infectious diseases in Wanstead and
Woodford, which required removal, were taken to the Waltham Joint
Hospital, under the control of the Waltham Joint Hospital Board.
Since November, 1936, the Waltham Joint Hospital Board have been
willing to admit, in addition to Scarlet Fever and Diphtheria, cases of the
following diseases:—
Complicated cases of Measles, Whooping Cough, Influenza and
Pneumonia;
The acute infectious diseases of the nervous system, Meningitis,
Poliomyelitis and Encephalitis;
Typhoid and Paratyphoid Fevers;
Dysentery, Erysipelas and Ophthalmia Neonatorum;
Puerperal Pyrexia.
Smallpox.—The London County Council are prepared to receive cases
of Smallpox from this area into the London Smallpox Hospital so long as
they have sufficient accommodation available.
2. Maternity and Child Welfare: —
(1) Midwifery and Maternity Services.—No changes have been made
in the personnel of the service. We have three Municipal Midwives working
in the district. Except for ante-natal visiting they devote the whole of
their time to midwifery.
The number of cases attended by them was as follows: —
(a) As Midwives 182
(b) As Maternity Nurses 54
Number of visits paid by these Midwives:—
(a) Number of cases 236
(b) Ante-natal visits 1631
(c) Nursing visits 3962