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Ealing 1962
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Ealing]
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REGISTRATION OF NURSING HOMES
There are 7 Nursing Homes in the Borough, with a total number of 162 beds.
They are registered by the Borough Council under the Public Health Act, 1936,
and are inspected regularly in order to ensure that as high a standard as possible is
maintained.
MEDICAL EXAMINATIONS
Candidates for permanent appointment to the Council's service are required to
pass a medical examination on appointment as are manual staff for admission to the
Sickness Pay Scheme of the National Joint Industrial Council for Local Authorities
Non-Trading Services.
During the year the following examinations were carried out:—
Administrative, Technical and Clerical Staff 60
Sickness Pay Scheme (Servants) 164
Gunnersbury Park Joint Committee Employees 6
230
The Council has amended the Sickness Pay Scheme so that staff who would
previously have been excluded from benefit due to some particular condition may
now be passed with reservations. These employees are paid for all absences due to
conditions other than the disability specified at their examination. The results of the
examinations have been as follows:—
Passed without Passed with
No. examined reservation reservations
164 142 22
The conditions for which these reservations have been made are as follows:—
| Complications of Injury | 1 |
| Epilepsy | 1 |
| Extensive operations pending | 1 |
| Heart Disease | 2 |
| High Blood Pressure | 4 |
| Hernia | 3 |
| Lung disease | 1 |
| Mental Illness | 2 |
| Peptic Ulcer | 3 |
| Spinal Disease | 1 |
| Tuberculosis | 2 |
| Tuberculosis and Peptic Ulcer | 1 |