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lowing attendances were recorded at the five Centres serving the Wanstead
and Woodford residents:—
(a) Children under one year of age 7,024
(b) Children between the ages of one and five years 3,831
4. Child Life Protection.—The Health Visitors are appointed Child
Life Protection Visitors under Part VII of the Public Health Act, 1936
There were nine foster-mothers and twelve foster-children on the
Register at the end of the year.
A total of seventy-two visits were paid by the Visitors.
5. (a) Arrangements for Dental Cases.—Arrangements were made
with the local dentists in 1937 to undertake the dental treatment of expectant
and nursing mothers and children under school age. Their charges are on
an agreed scale and the fees payable by the patients are assessed according
to their means, on a scale similar to that of the Essex County Council.
During the year 1941, two mothers and eight children were treated
under this Scheme.
(b) Arrangements for Orthopaedic cases.—There is an orthopaedic
clinic at the Shrubberies, High Road, South Woodford, directed conjointly
by the British Red Cross Society and the Essex County Council.
In suitable cases the Wanstead and Woodford Borough Council have
paid the fees for the admission of orthopaedic cases to Brookfield Orthopaedic
Hospital.
Section C. Sanitary Circumstances of the Area.
1. (1) Water Supply.—The water service throughout the district is
supplied by the Metropolitan Water Board.
(2) Drainage and' Sewerage.- There have been no important extensions
of sewerage or improvements made in the arrangements for drainage,
sewerage and sewage disposal.
2. Rivers and Streams.— The results of the analyses of samples of effluent
from the three sewage works were satisfactory.
3. (1) Closet Accommodation.—With the exception of four isolated
dwellings, house drainage throughout the district is conducted on the water
carriage system.
(2) Public Cleansing.—The collection and disposal of house refuse
has continued to be carried out under contract requiring the maintenance
of a weekly collation throughout the district and the disposal of the refuse
under controlled tipping conditions.
The Contract dating from March, 1938, expired in March this year
and was renewed for a further period of three years, the contractors to
continue the existing arrangements in relation to salvage collection with a
provision for review or termination at one month's notice on either side.
Council owned land in the Borough is used for the tipping of the refuse.