View report page

130
Nursing Homes Registration Act, 1927.
On 1st October, 1930, the Essex County Council delegated;
to this Council their powers and duties under the above Act.
The Act provides for the registration and inspection of nursing
homes by the Local Supervising Authority.
There are three registered nursing homes in the Borough.
Of these, one is a maternity home only. One home closed during
the year (18th August, 1933).
These institutions were visited on 13 occasions, the result
of inspection being satisfactory in each case.
Home Helps.
Under the Council's scheme for the provision of home helps,
19 applications for home helps were dealt with during 1933. In
15 cases home helps were provided, 14 of these cases having the
charges remitted in accordance with the Council's scale. In the
4 remaining eases municipal home helps were not provided, as
other arrangements for the confinements were made.
At the end of the year there were 10 names on the Council's
approved list of home helps.
ASSISTED MILK SUPPLY.
As it is a condition of grant that the mothers or infants must
attend the Authority's Centres—unless when unable to attend,
in which case the home is visited by a Health Visitor—all mothers
and infants in receipt of milk free or at reduced price are under
medical supervision.