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General Provision of Health Services.
ADDITIONAL SERVICES SINCE 1925.
Four Maternity and Child Welfare Centres.
Additional ante-natal session at Silvertown Clinic.
Lectures to midwives and mothers.
Investigation of all maternal deaths, premature births and infant
deaths.
Inspection of Nursing Homes and subsidized clinics.
Dental treatment for children under five years.
Twenty-two additional hospital beds for babies.
Orthopaedic clinic for crippled children.
Sunlight clinics.
Additional convalescent treatment for children.
Sanatorium for tuberculous children under 10 years (10 beds).
Additional (45) beds at Dagenham Sanatorium for adults.
Sun-ray installation at Dagenham.
Increased facilities for treatment of surgical T.B.
Special wards at Plaistow Hospital for measles and whoopingcough.
Installation for artificial sunlight at Plaistow Hospital.
Additional facilities for bacteriological tests.
Augmented ambulance service.
Special investigations and restrictions in regard to Dairies and
milk vendors.
Special inspection of all places where food is prepared and sold.'
Inspection of all animals slaughtered and of all meat offered for
sale.
Examination of all cows and cow sheds.
Skilled bacteriological and chemical examination of various foodstuffs
and other suspected material.
Four additional hospital blocks for infectious cases at Harold
Wood.
Systematic visits and reports upon all mentally deficient cases.
Arrangements for placing cases under guardianship.
Revised methods of ascertainment.
(Proposed Colony for 750 cases at Ockenden.)
Residential Open-air School for Boys (80 beds).
Residential Open-air School for Girls (00 beds).
Open-air Day School.
Stammering Class.
Orthopaedic beds.
Two additional clinics (Dental and Minor ailments).
Augmented ophthalmic sessions.
Following-up of all out-of-school cases and of all Special School
cases.
In-patient hospital treatment for tonsils and adenoids operation
cases.
Consulting Aural Surgeon for deaf children.
Holiday camps.
Two Nursery Schools.
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