[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Romford].
- Romford (London, England). Municipal Borough.
- Date:
- [1947]
Licence: Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Credit: [Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Romford]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![18 (iv) Child Life Protection. 1]] Romford, each Health Visitor also holds the appointment of Child Protection Visitor under Sections '206 to 220 of the Public Health Act, 1936. TABLE 6. (a) Number of persons who were receiving children for reward at the end of the year 30 (b) Number of Children:— (1) Received during the year 73 (2) At the end of the year 33 (3) Who died during the year 2 (4) On whom inquests were held during the year 0 (c) Number of Child Protection Visitors at the end of the year who were:— (1) Health Visitors 3 (2) Female, other than Health Visitors 0 (3) Male 0 (d) Number of persons (in addition to or in lieu of Visitors under (c) above) or Societies authorised to visit under the proviso to Section 209 (2) of the Public Health Act, 1936 0 (e) Proceedings taken during the year:— (1) Number of Cases 0 (2) Act and Section under which proceedings were taken - Once again particular attention was given to the supervision of foster mothers in the area, on the lines set out in my report of 1945. (v) Adoption of Children (Regulation) Act, 1939. Again, at the request of the various Adoption Societies, many enquiries were made by the Assistant Medical Officer, and the Health Visitors as to the suitability of persons desiring to adopt children, and, on being informed by the Societies that such children had been received, further inspections were carried out, and the Societies notified accordingly. When any doubts arose as to the status of an organisation, desiring to place children for adoption, the appropriate Medical Officer of Health of the district in which the organisation was situ ated was given full particulars, in order to enable him to deal with the matter.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b19794046_0020.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
