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ceedings were necessary in the year to cause the child to be
removed, and all children were healthy and well cared for.
Under Section 7 of the Adoption of Children (Regulation)
Act 1939, four children were under supervision by the health
visitors at the end of the year. These are children placed by
their parents with foster-parents, who undertake the care and
maintenance of the child without reward in money or kind, but
for whom no action is taken in respect of legal adoption.
HOSPITALS
GENERAL STATEMENT
The Institutions owned and controlled by the County Borough
Council are the following: — (1) Whipps Cross Hospital; (2)
Forest Gate Hospital; (3) Harold Wood Hospital; (4) Isolation
Hospital, Plaistow; (5) Dagenham Sanatorium; (6) Langdon
Hill Sanatorium; (7) South Ockendon Colony; (8) Central
Home; (9) Forest House. Of these, Central Home and Forest
House are controlled by the Social Services Committee. Beds
in all the Institutions, except the two Sanatoria, the Isolation
Hospital and South Ockendon Colony, are allocated to the
Essex County Council and the East Ham Borough Council under
a User Agreement. The proportions are 34 per cent, for Essex
and 16 per cent. for East Ham.
This section of the report deals with all these Institutions
except the Isolation Hospital, the two Sanatoria and South
Ockendon Colony, which are more completely dealt with in the
sections devoted to infectious diseases, tuberculosis and mental
deficiency.
WHIPPS CROSS HOSPITAL
Report by Dr. A. Norman Jones, F.R.C.S.,
Medical Superintendent
Whipps Cross Hospital is a general hospital, providing
beds for medical and surgical cases, together with separate
sections for children and chronic sick; there is no maternity
department. The Hospital was appropriated for public health
purposes in 1944, and, in addition to patients from West Ham,
receives cases from East Ham and part of the County of Essex,
by virtue of a "User Agreement" which has existed for some
years.
Some figures of the year's work are included in a brief
statistical appendix, and further details appear in other paragraphs.
It should be emphasised that these figures do not
convey an adequate idea of all the work which has been done,
as they give no indication of the time devoted to preparing
plans for the future development of the Hospital.
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