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NURSING AND MATERNITY HOMES.
The certificates of four homes were surrendered during the
year, these being "Rest-a-Whyle" Nursing Home; "Sunnymede";
"Fair Elms"; and 27, Peterborough Road. One home, No. 365,
Torbay Road, was registered with accommodation for one maternity
case. At the end of the year, then, there were 21 homes registered
in this district with a total of 180 beds, of which 82 could be used
for maternity cases. The use. of a number of premises registered
as nursing homes has, at least temporarily, been discontinued for
this purpose.
CLINIC BUILDINGS.
The County Council began work on the erection of two of the
combined buildings, the one at Honeypot Lane, the other at
Alexander Avenue, South Harrow, part of which would be used by
the Council for the purpose of holding there maternity and child
welfare sessions.
The plans of the Kenmore Clinic, which had been drawn up to
afford facilities both for maternity and child welfare purposes, and
for the holding of public meetings, did not receive favour at the
Ministry. As the Middlesex County Council intimated that they
did not desire the building to be adapted to provide any services
for them, the original plans showing a suggested lay-out of the
premises, designed solely for maternity and child welfare purposes,
were submitted to the Ministry.
A step forward towards the erection of the central maternity
and child welfare clinic was taken when the Public Health Committee,
at their meeting in May, resolved that provisional approval
be given to the revised schedule of accommodation to be provided
at this building, and that Mr. Verner Rees be asked to submit the
preliminary plans of a building providing such accommodation.