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Bromley and District Hospital.
This hospital has adopted a progressive policy to make available
to the Borough a general hospital service of inestimable
value to the townspeople. Co-operation with the services of the
Local Authority is always readily extended by the hospital, and
especially so to the Borough's Casualty Services during the war,
when so many civilian casualties were treated and cared for at
the Hospital.
An extract from their Annual Report reads :—
" During the year arrangements have been made with the
Bromley Borough Council whereby the Hospital now administers
the Ambulance Service on their behalf. An arrangement
has also been made with the Council to accept Maternity cases
for whom they are responsible, and for treating School Children
on behalf of the Education Committee.
"With the anticipated nationalisation of the Hospitals, the
position of this hospital in the future cannot be foreseen with
any certainty, but whilst we are a Voluntary Hospital the Board
will continue to give the sick population and the mothers of
Bromley the same standard of efficiency of which the Hospital
has always been proud ; and the Board will also press forward
with progressive schemes with a view to establishing a comprehensive
Hospital Service at Bromley for the use of the
Bromley people."
PUBLIC HEALTH ACT, 1936. SECTIONS 187/194.
Nursing Homes. Eight nursing homes on the register at the
end of the year 1945. These homes provide a total of 85 beds for
surgical and medical cases. The homes were inspected on 18
occasions during the year.
SECTION B (II). MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE.
Municipal Midwifery Service.
Domiciliary midwifery of the Borough is entirely operated
by the Municipal Midwives. There are no independent midwives
practising in the area.
Routine work of the midwives is indicated in the following
figures for 1945 :—
Total No. of bookings 510
Confinements attended 225
Hospital cases 320
Visiting—Ante-natal 2771
Post-natal 3671
The midwives attend the Ante-natal Clinics twice weekly,
details of which follow. They carry out the ante-natal and posnatal
routine examinations of all hospital cases.