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Accommodation for the Aged. There are thirty-eight beds for
geriatric patients at the Edgware General Hospital; fifty-two at Roxbourne
Hospital; thirty-two at Oxhey Grove Hospital; fourteen at
Stanmore Cottage Hospital; twenty-three at Orme Lodge; twenty-four
at Glebe House and twenty-six at St. Elizabeth's Hospital which is
administered by the Barnet Group Hospital Management Committee.
Contractual arrangements exist for fifteen beds at Springbok House which
is provided by the National Corporation for the Elderly, nine at Grosvenor
Nursing Home, and four at the Avenue Nursing Home. There are three
hospitals now to which patients can be admitted direct from their homes,
these being Edgware General Hospital, Roxbourne Hospital and St.
Andrews. To meet the needs of the area there are 267 beds scattered over
a wide area in eleven different establishments. Not only is the number of
beds well below what is needed to meet the demands of the district, but
the fact that they are divided amongst a number of institutions, some of
them of small size, makes them less serviceable and valuable than they
would if they were concentrated in a small number of hospitals.
Mental and Mental Deficiency Hospitals. Sufferers from mental
illness from this area are admitted mostly to Shenley Hospital. In the
main, mental defectives from Middlesex go to Harperbury Hospital near
St. Albans ; to a lesser extent to Leavesden Hospital, Abbots Langley.
There are three "designated" (observation) wards in general hospitals
(North Middlesex, Central Middlesex and West Middlesex hospitals) to
which patients may be admitted for a short period for observation whilst
the general question of and the necessary formalities for their admission
to a mental hospital can be dealt with.
NURSING HOMES
These are private establishments which provide accommodation for
various types of patients. Section 187 of the Public Health Act, 1936,
requires that these homes shall be registered with the local health authority.
The responsibility for registering and supervising them rests with the
Health Committee of the County Council. Applications for registration
should be made to the Clerk of the County Council.
At the beginning of the year, there were thirteen homes registered for
179 beds, of which five were for maternity cases. Roxborough home
closed, and the Calvary home had its registered accommodation increased
from forty to forty-six beds. At the end of the year, then, the twelve
registered homes had 172 beds, of which three were for maternity cases.
ESTABLISHMENTS FOR MASSAGE AND
SPECIAL TREATMENT
Section 355 of the Middlesex County Council Act, 1944, prohibits
any person carrying on in this district an establishment for massage and
special treatment without a licence from the District Council authorising
to do so. There is a saving clause for registered members of the
Chartered Society of Physiotherapists and for members of the medical
Profession.