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APPENDIX I.
FURTHER MEMORANDUM BY THE MEDICAL OFFICER
OF HEALTH ON LOCAL GOVERNMENT ACT 1929, IN
REGARD TO THE PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICES.
In November, 1929, I issued a preliminary memorandum concerning
the Local Government Act as it affects the Public Health
Services. Since that time a lot of work has been done, and as a
result of many meetings and conferences, an agreement has been
arrived at between the County of Essex, County Borough of East
Ham, and the County Borough of West Ham in regard to the
ownership of the institutions belonging to the West Ham Guardians,
whereby the West Ham Council are to take over and have
complete control of all the institutions, with the exception of the
Aldersbrook and Scattered Homes, which are being taken over by
the County Borough of East Ham. By the terms of agreement,
which extends over a period of twenty-five years, the County of
Essex and the County Borough of East Ham are to send their
percentage of patients on a user basis to the various institutions
taken over by West Ham ; a similar proviso for West Ham and
Essex applies to the Aldersbrook Homes.
It will be well at this juncture to set out here a complete list
of the various institutions for dealing with the sick and infirm of
West Ham which, on April 1st next, will be attached to the Public
Health Department of this Borough, many of them being owned
by the West Ham Council, and a number of others subsidised by
them.
The following are institutions owned by the West Ham
Council:—
Whipps Cross Hospital.
Forest House.
Forest House Cottages.
Central Home.
Forest Gate Sick Home.
Margate Convalescent Home.
Dagenham Sanatorium for Adults.
Langdon Hills Sanatorium for Children.
Plaistow Fever Hospital.
Harold Wood Convalescent Home.
Fyfield Residential Open-air School.
The following are institutions subsidised by the Council, and
into which cases are sent and returns received by the M.O.H.,
though not under his actual supervision:—
Queen Mary's Hospital, Stratford.
St. Mary's Hospital, Plaistow.
Plaistow Maternity Hospital.
Invalid Crippled Children's Hospital, Balaam Street, E.13.
Sunshine Home, Shoeburyness.
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