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SECTION B. - GENERAL PROVISION OF
HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE AREA.
PUBLIC HEALTH ACT, 1936, PART IV. — NURSING HOMES.
The Wimbledon Borough Council is responsible for the registration
and supervision of Nursing Homes in the Borough. Eight visits of
inspection were made during 1959.
No new Nursing Homes were registered during the year. One
Maternity Hospital and one Nursing Home were exempted, on an
annual basis, from registration under Section 192 of the Public Health
Act 1936. One existing Home closed down.
The position at the end of 1959 was as follows :—
Number of Homes on the register
Maternity Nil
Others 5
Number of beds provided 85
The Nursing Homes in Wimbledon were again found to be maintained
and run in a satisfactory manner. Close supervision was paid
during the visits to the way in which the records of the Homes were
kept, that proper attention was being paid to fire precautions, and the
Council's byelaws were being complied with.
LABORATORY FACILITIES.
The Corporation's arrangements for the examination of pathological
material continued on similar lines to previous years. Bacteriological
examinations of milk, ice-cream, water, swabs, sputum and other pathological
specimens are undertaken by the Ministry of Health Laboratory
at Epsom. The Laboratory at the Nelson Hospital, Merton is also utilised
for the examination of pathological specimens. Reports on examinations
carried out at both these Laboratories are available to the Corporation
free of cost.

Samples of milk and water requiring chemical analysis, and also
Food and Drug samples are sent by the Corporation to the Public
Analyst, D. D. Moir, M.Sc., F.R.I.C., Southwark Street, S.E.l. Biological
examinations of milk are carried out at the Royal Institute of Public
Health and Hygiene Laboratory, Queen Square, W.C.l.
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