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During- the year a prosecution was brought under the Midwives
and Maternity Homes Act, 1926, ag;ainst a person acting
as a midwife without being registered. After an adjournment,
the defendant brought as a witness a medical practitioner, and
the case was dismissed.
Summary of Visits Paid during 1932 by Nurses of
Plaistow Maternity Hospital and District Nurses Home.
Midwifery 563, Monthly 200, Hospital 327.
Maternity and Nursing Homes.—Nursing Homes Registration
Act, 1927.
1. Number of applications for registration 1*
2. Number of Nursing Homes on register 1
3. Number of orders made refusing or cancelling
registration Nil
4. Number of appeals against such orders Nil
5. Number of appeals in which orders have been :—
(a) Confirmed on appeal Nil
(b) Disallowed Nil
6. Number of applications for exemption from
registration Nil
7. Number of cases in which exemption has been :—
(a) Granted Nil
(b) Withdrawn Nil
(c) Refused Nil
* Application withdrawn by person making the same.
Under the Nursing Homes Registration Act, 1927, a nurse
was prosecuted during 1932 for using her house as a Nursing
Home without the same being registered. She was fined £20
(including costs).
Institutional Provision for Unmarried Mothers and
Homeless Children.
Already detailed in my report for 1930.