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8
COUNTY BOROUGH OF EAST HAM.
PUBLIC HEALTH DEPARTMENT.
REPORT
OF THE
MEDICAL OFFICER OF HEALTH
For the year 1923.
SUMMARY OF NURSING ARRANGEMENTS, HOSPITAL AND OTHER
INSTITUTIONS AVAILABLE FOR THE DISTRICT.
Professional Nursing in the Home.
(a) General.—Excellent work is carried out by the Nurses
attached to the branch Home in Katherine Road of the Plaistow
Maternity Charity to which the Local Authority make no grant.
(b) For Infectious Diseases, e.g., Measles, etc., no provision
is made.
Midwives.
No Midwives are subsidised by the Authority, but a large
amount of the Midwifery work is undertaken by Nurses of the
Burges Road branch of the Plaistow Maternity Charity, in addition
to eleven Midwives who have private practice in the
Borough, and six practising in the North Woolwich area
attached to Sir Henry Tate's Home.
Clinics and Treatment Centres.
The Maternity and Child Welfare Department at the "White
House" provided by the Council is in charge of a Lady Assistant
Medical Officer, who also supervises the work of the Health
Visitors. For report see pp. 16-19.
Infant Consultations and Ante-Natal Clinics are conducted
daily. Branch Clinics are also held once a week at St. Michael's
Institute, Manor Park, and St. John's School, North Woolwich
At the present time there is no Day Nursery in the Borough
The School Clinics are referred to in the report on the School
Medical Service.