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Staff.
II.- GENERAL PROVISION OF HEALTH SERVICES.
Full particulars of the staff of the Public Health Deparment are given on
page 3.
Nursing in
the home.
The arrangements made with the East London Nursing Society for the
nursing of cases of Measles, Pneumonia following Measles, Ophthalmia Neonatorum,
Puerperal Fever, Puerperal Pyrexia and Pemphigus Neonatorum were
continued. The Council pay this Society 1s. 3d. per visit to such cases and
068 visits were made by them during the year.
Midwives.
There are 12 midwives practising in the Borough, and in addition there
are 23 employed by the voluntary associations.
The supervision and control of midwives is in the hands of the L.C.C.
Laboratory
Facilities.
The Council has arrangements with the L.C.C. for the bacteriological
examination at the Mile End Hospital of certain specimens sent by medical
practitioners.
The number of bacteriological examinations of swabs (for Diphtheria
bacilli) made on behalf of the Public Health Department during the year was
2,013—163 were positive and 1,850 were negative.
Specimens of sputa arc examined by our own Tuberculosis officers at the
Tuberculosis Dispensaries.
Water, milk and footstuffs are examined at the Council's own Laboratory
at the Public Health Department.
Legislation
during the
year.
1.—The Temporary Order declaring Chicken Pox to be a notifiable Infectious
Disease under the Public Health (London) Act, 1891, was continued for a
further period of twelve months from the 8th May.
2.—The Agricultural Produce (Grading and Marking) Cider Regulations,
1931.
The Regulations prescribe grade designations to indicate the quality of cider
produced from apples and pears grown in England and Wales and a grade designation
mark.
The Regulations came into operation on the 23rd March.
3.—London County Council Byelaw made under the Public Health (Smoke
Abatement) Act, 1926.