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The figures in brackets indicate the number of Homes and the number
of beds wholly or partly to the reception of maternity cases.
Five applications on behalf of voluntary hospitals and homes'
for renewal of certificates of exemption were granted.
The nursing homes in the Borough are visited periodically
by the Senior Woman Assistant Medical Officer who made 54 visits
during the year for this purpose. When new applications for
registration are received the inspection by the Medical Officer is
followed by a visit from the Chief Sanitary Inspector, who reports
fully regarding the sanitary arrangements, takes measurements
of the rooms and, if considered necessary, arranges for the testing
of the drainage system. While the discovery of an unregistered
home taking maternity cases would be simple, by reason of the fact
that all births are notifiable, the discovery of unregistered homes
taking chronic cases is more difficult. Advertisements in the local
press are watched in order to detect unregistered premises.
One inspection revealed that eight patients had been taken
into a home approved for seven patients only, and that there was
no state registered nurse on the staff. The owner of the home
complied with a request that one patient should be removed
immediately and that a state registered nurse be engaged in place
of a nurse who had left.