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attractive there should be no dearth of suitable applicants, and one
can look to the time when the general standard of the entrants can
be raised without this resulting in a shortage in the profession, and
a lengthening in the period of training.
NURSING AND MATERNITY HOMES.
Particulars of the registered homes in this district were given
in the report for the year 1935.
The following homes were registered for the first time during
the year:— "Maitlands," Marsh Road, Pinner, for the reception of
six maternity and four other cases; "Summerland," Pinner Road,
for the reception of three maternity cases; Lincoln House, High
Street, Harrow-on-the-Hill, for the reception of not more than ten
chronic patients. "Parkside," Alverston Avenue, Kenton, was
previously registered for the reception of three chronic cases.
Owing to the limited accommodation it was decided to amend the
registration to a maximum of three chronic cases with a proviso
that all the patients receiving treatment in the home at any one
time should be persons of the same sex. Before the end of the
year the keeper of the home removed from the district.
The Council again granted exemption from registration for a
period of one year to the two voluntary hospitals in the area, while
the Christian Science Nursing Home has been granted exemption
by the Minister of Health.
Nursing-homes are inspected every six months, but those which
are registered for the reception of maternity cases every three
months.
MILK ISSUES.
Reference has already been made to the modification in the
issue of milk to expectant and nursing mothers, both in the amount
granted and in the scale on which such grants are based. According
to the first report of the Advisory Committee on Nutrition the
average daily consumption of milk for children should be from
one to two pints. It was decided, however, that the existing
arrangement by which a grant to infants is normally restricted to
one pint per day, but is, in special cases, upon the recommendation
of the clinic medical officer, increased to 1½ pints, is adequate.
The existing scheme, however, was amended as to the limit of
income, bringing the scale of income on which grants of milk are
made to weaned infants and toddlers into line with that for grants
to expectant and nursing mothers. Early in the year it had been
agreed that the travelling expenses of the wage-earner of the
household be taken into consideration in arriving at the net income
of the family.
The number of issues has steadily increased, the figure in
December, 1937, being 438 compared with 352 for the corresponding
month in 1936 and 236 in the previous year. Of this number 378
grants were for pasteurized milk and 60 for packet milk.