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CHILD LIFE PROTECTION
A few foster-mothers failed to send noticed of reception
or removal of a foster child. No proceedings were authorised
in respect of these contraventions, hut warning letters were
sent.
All the Health Visitors are appointed Child Protection
Visitors, and the visits of supervision of foster-children
were carried out by them.
Details of registration during 1940 were:-
No. of persons who were receiving children
for reward at the end of the year 63
No. of children on register at end of year 94
No. of children who died during the year nil.
ORTHOPAEDIC TREATMENT
No formal arrangement has been made in the borough for
the treatment of children requiring massage, orthopaedic
treatment, or remedial exercises; patients were referred to
the West Middlesex County Hospital, or other hospitals able
to undertake the treatment of such cases.
Assistance was granted towards the cost of maintenance
of one child in a convalescent home during the year, and
towards the cost of special shoes for another child.
NURSING HOMES
There wore 10 private nursing homes in the Borough, all
of which were registered. All the homes were kept under
periodic supervision throughout the year. Special watch was
kept on the advertisement columns of the local press, etc.,
with a view to the discovery of unregistered Homes.
The Bearsted Memorial Hospital which removed from London
to the Hampton Court Hotel for the duration of the war, was
exempted from registration.
The three voluntary hospitals in the borough, which
receive private patients, were' also exempted
from
registration
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