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(3) Midwifery Service.—The nurses employed by the Greater
Ealing Nursing Association do not carry out midwifery work.
For attendance on mothers in necessitous circumstances the Town
Council does not subsidise or permanently employ any particular
midwife. When a midwife is required for a necessitous case the
midwife nearest the patient is employed and the Council defrays
the cost. All the midwives in the Borough are "trained" and
on the whole are so efficient in carrying out their duties that there
is no difficulty in selecting a midwife who resides near to the
expectant mother.
Maternity and Nursing Homes.
The powers and duties under the Nursing Homes Registration
Act, 1927, as regards the Borough were delegated to the Town
Council by the Middlesex County Council as from the 1st October,
1930.
Byelaws prescribing the records to be kept of patients received
into a nursing home, etc., in accordance with Section 4 of the
Nursing Homes Registration Act, have been adopted. Certificates
of registration and certificates of exemption were issued to all the
nursing homes in the Borough who had been registered or exempted,
as the case may be, by the County Council.
Three new applications for registration were received. In two
of these the premises were found to be suitable in every way and
were registered accordingly, but the third application was withdrawn
after the applicant had been advised that the house was
not very suitable for conversion into a nursing home and after he
had discovered that there was little demand for the accommodation
which it was proposed to provide.