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(d) Clinics and Treatment Centres:—
Child Welfare Centres. There are five centres in the district: —
(i) St. Barnabas Church Hall, Snakes Lane.
(ii) Fuller's Road Sunday School.
(iii) Baptist Church Hall, Aldersbrook.
(iv) Ashton Playing Fields Pavilion, Chigwell Road.
These are supported and directed by the Borough Council.
(v) Holy Trinity Church Hall, Hermon Hill.
This is under the direction of a voluntary committee, but is subsidised
by the Council.
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.
Our arrangements for the reception of maternity cases which we had
before the war with Queen Mary's Hospital, Stratford, are no longer in
operation. We are still able to send cases of Puerperal Pyrexia to the
Waltham Joint Hospital, but for other cases where the condition of the
mother or home conditions require that the mother should be removed, we
have been making arrangements to evacuate the patients to hospitals
outside the district.
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.