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In the maternity and child welfare services, the principal development during the year
was the appointment of a Non-Medical Supervisor of Midwives and Home Nurses, in preparation
for the transfer to the Council of the domiciliary midwifery service provided by Plaistow
Maternity Hospital, The home nursing service is also expected to benefit from this appointment.
The tuberculosis services report, on pages 59 - 64, the formation of the West Ham
Tuberculosis Voluntary After-Care Committee, and the establishment of a library service for
tuberculous patients. We are most grateful for the generous co-operation of the Libraries
Committee and the enthusiastic support of the Borough Librarian which made the library
project possible. Both these new developments should help to ease the lot of the sufferers
from this tedious disease.
It is hoped that in these and many other pages of the report will be found plenty of
evidence of the vigorous and sustained vitality of the health services. For this I owe my
grateful thanks to the Committees for their consistent and encouraging support and to my
colleagues of all grades in all parts of the services whose efforts have made so much
achievement possible.
1 am,
Madam Mayor, Ladies and Gentlemen,
Your obedient Servant,
P. ROY DENN IS ON.
Medical Officer of Health
and School Medical Officer.
Municipal Health Offices,
225, Romford Road,
West Ham, E.7.
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