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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Ealing 1970
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Ealing]
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27. REGISTRATION OF PREMISES USED FOR
MEDICAL PURPOSES
NURSING HOMES
Nursing homes are required to be registered with the local authority under Section
190 of the Public Health Act, 1936, and at the end of the year, eight nursing homes were re
registered with a total of 275 beds.
Visits are regularly made to all nursing homes to ensure that they maintain satisfactory
standards.
ESTABLISHMENTS FOR MASSAGE AND SPECIAL TREATMENT
The Council requires all persons operating an establishment for massage or special
treatment to be registered under Part XII of the Middlesex County Council Act, 1944.
All establishments are inspected annually to ensure that they are satisfactory.
Byelaws made under the Act state that the licensed person must exhibit a complete scale
of all fees or charges, keep records of people employed at the establishment and keep
particulars of cases treated.
There is a total of 33 establishments used by licensed persons in the borough as follows:-
| Chiropody only | 10 |
| r Chiropody and special treatment | 7 |
| Massage only | 2 |
| Massage and special treatment | 7 |
| Physiotherapy | 1 |
| Physiotherapy and special treatment | 1 |
| Osteopathy | 2 |
| Beauty treatment | 3 |
Boards were set up under the Professions Supplementary to Medicine Act, 1960, and
registers were compiled of those medical auxiliaries considered to be suitably qualified.
People registered are entitled to use the designation "state registered".
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