[Report 1932] / Medical Officer of Health, Grays Thurrock U.D.C.

  • Grays Thurrock (England). Urban District Council.
Date:
1932
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Credit: [Report 1932] / Medical Officer of Health, Grays Thurrock U.D.C. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    COMPARISON OF VAKIOUS STATISTICS. Year. No. of Births Birth Rate Death Rate Infantile Mortality Rate 1927 314 17-3 9*9 47-0 1928 317 14*1 8-2 37-8 1929 307 13*8 8*3 65T 1930 314 14-4 7*5 22-2 1931 288 15*2 8-9 3P2 1932 305 16*5 1P5 65*5 2, GENERAL PROVISION OF HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE AREA. (i.) Public Health Officers of the Authority. The Public Health Officers of the Local Authority are enumerated at the commencement of my Report. (ii.) Nursing in the Home, (a) General. There are no district Nursing Associations within the area. A small amount of professional nursing in the home is performed by the Health Visitors, and attention should be called to the excellent work of the 48th Nursing Division, St. John Ambulance Brigade. This comprises a Lady Superintendent, two lady Ambulance Officers and a number of Ambulance Sisters. I am indebted to Mrs. A. LI. Harvey, the Superintendent, for the following details of duties during 1931 :— Motor Ambulance duties H ome Comforts Centre Orthopaedic Clinic Miscellaneous (including night visits) 820 247 485 1121 The voluntary work of the Division should earn the appreciation of the Council and public alike. A Hospital Home Comforts Committee was estab- lished in 1926, with the Medical Officer of Health as Chairman. Its object was to establish Centres whereat articles for use in a sick room could be obtained for