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INCONTINENCE PADS
Special commercially prepared disposable pads and/or knickers are supplied free
in suitable cases for use by incontinent and chronically ill aged persons.Over
41,000 pads plus 40,000 linings were purchased during the year and issued to 246
persons, 32-% more persons than last year receiving this service.
LOAN OF NURSING EQUIPMENT
Articles of nursing and sick room equipment are loaned at the request of the
general practitioner, district nurse or hospital medico-social worker etc., free
of charge for an indefinite period to persons being nursed in their own homes. The
Council purchased many items of additional equipment required to meet requests for
loans. In addition equipment is loaned by the British Red Cross Society and by the
Council's Welfare Department to handicapped persons.
Statistics on page 85.
MARIE CURIE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION
The Council participates in both schemes operated by the Marie Curie Memorial
Foundation for the welfare of persons suffering from cancer who are being nursed in
their own homes namely the Day and Night Nursing Service and the Area Grant Welfare
Scheme. Nurses and/or "sitters in" are provided for short periods to patients who
live alone and to others to enable relatives to obtain adequate rest periods from
the responsibility of nursing Under the Welfare Scheme grants are made on behalf
of the Foundation towards the cost of hire or supply of special equipment, linen
bedding etc.
Three patients received a total of 215V4 hours under the Day and Night Nursing
Service while a further 35 patients were provided with special equipment.
A grant is made by the Council to the Foundation
DOMICILIARY MIDWIFERY SERVICE
The Council operates a domiciliary midwifery service under Section 23 of the
National Health Service Act 1946,by an arrangement for utilising the services of
midwives employed by tjie London Hospital and by the Nursing Sisters of St. John the
Divine, In addition the Council directly employs the non-medical supervisorof
m i dw i ve s.
The joint scheme for training midwives by the Nursing Sisters of St. John the
Divine and the Mile End Hospital . continued during the year. Pupils who completed
the course numbered 16 with 4 pupils under training at the end of the year. The
Council pays to the hospital 40 per cent of the expenditure involved under the
provisions of the Ministry of Health Circular 8/56, There were 142 home confinements
at tended by the Midwives,Four general practitioners from practices in the borough.
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