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At the begining of the year, twenty-nine establishments were licensed,
four were discontinued, so the number at the end of the year was twentyfive.
In addition, certificates were lodged by two members of the Chartered
Society of Physiotherapists.
NURSING, MIDWIFERY, ETC., IN THE HOME
General Nursing.
The administration of the home nursing service is one of the functions
for which the local Area Committee is responsible. The Superintendent
of the Home Nurses is Mrs. R. M. Bromley, who works at the Area
Health Office at Kynaston Court.
At the end of the year, there were some 20 whole-time nurses and 6
part-time nurses who worked mostly in the mornings, an equivalent of
24 whole-time staff. During the year they paid in all 63,126 visits.
Nursing Equipment. The County Council in exercising its powers to
make available nursing equipment on loan to patients being nursed at
home have used the services of the Middlesex Branch of the British Red
Cross Society. The Red Cross depot in this area is at 39 Sheepcote Road.
Midwifery and Maternity Nursing.
The midwifery service is administered locally by the local Area
Committee.
Most of the midwives live in their own homes and the districts which
they cover are as far as possible based on those points as centres. The
work of the midwives is co-ordinated by the Non-medical Supervisor of
Midwives, Mrs. R. M. Bromley of 213 Exeter Road, South Harrow
(Telephone No. Pinner 5752).
Last year the midwives attended the confinements of 882 women in
their homes (in 158 instances a doctor was present, in the other 724 not).
Home Helps.
This service is intended essentially as an emergency service by which
help is sent in to a household faced with some emergency, often enough
the result of the mother herself succumbing to some illness. In practice
though it has gradually become one of providing help to the aged and
those suffering from some long-standing illness. The assistance which
can be given to these people is of the greatest importance, as even moderate
help enables some of them to continue to live at home who, without it
could not have managed, and would have had to have been admitted to an
institution, either Part III welfare accommodation or even a hospital.