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Charity and District Nurses Home have been carried on. These
amenities are lacking in the High Street Ward, which contains only
one resident medical practitioner, and no medical institution such as
those above mentioned, and there can be little doubt that the facilities
for obtaining medical relief in Plaistow, assisted by the home
visitation of the nurses from the Maternity Charity, have had a
material effect in producing the beneficial results recorded in connection
with that ward.
There is reason to believe that, given a suitable house in High
Street Ward, the authorities of the Maternity Charity would staff it
as a branch establishment and carry on similar home visitation to
that now organised in the Southern part of the Borough. That there
is plenty of scope for such a branch is shown by the figures given
above.
Alteration of Registration Sub-Districts.—Following
upon the death of Mr. W. Cook, the late Registrar of Plaistow
Sub-District, with the consent of the Registrar-General a new scheme
was formulated whereby the Borough was divided into five districts
instead of four, and bringing the various Registration Sub-Districts
into conformity with the boundaries of groups of Wards of the
Borough.
Chief Zymotic Diseases.—The total deaths from the seven
principal Zymotic diseases numbered 560, making an annual Zymotic
death-rate of 1.87 per 1,000, the average Zymotic death-rate during