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LOCAL REGULATIONS.
Nil.
The Bye-Laws are enforced, where necessary, by the
Public Health Committee, acting through their Medical Officer
of Health.
Professional Nursing- in the Home.
There is no municipal arrangement for professional nursing
in the homes. There are, however, several voluntary Associations
employing a large staff of efficient nurses who carry
out invaluable work in nursing the necessitous in their homes.
As mentioned elsewhere, the co-operation between these
Societies and the Local Authority is of the closest possible
nature, both in respect to home nursing and health visiting.
The Forest Gate section of this Borough is supplied with
home-nurses by the Essex County Nursing Association from
their branch in Beechcroft Road, Leytonstone. The Silvertown
area is similarly supplied through the Tate Nurses
(Queen's Nurses), Nurses Home, Saville Road, Silvertown.
By far the largest amount of nursing in the homes, however,
is carried out by the Plaistow Maternity Charity, who serve all
local areas.
HEALTH WEEK.
September 25th-0ctober 2nd, 1926.
The Council magnanimously voted a considerable sum to
be expended in connection with Health Week.
The functions and ceremonies of the week (including Services,
Lectures, Concerts, Cinema Films, etc.) were of the
usual type, except that special mention should be made of the
one outstanding: successful function, which was that of the
Thanksgiving Service in West Ham Park, when a choir of
8,000 elementnry school children saner. The success of this
undertaking is due to the West Ham Teachers, who organised
the affair, and to the parents, who allowed tTieir children to
come.