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ditions are wholly inadequate the patient is, if possible, admitted
to hospital.
In all cases of Diphtheria and Scarlet Fever admission to
hospital is advised.
C. Midwives.—No midwives are subsidised by the Authority.
A considerable amount of midwifery work is undertaken by the
nurses of the Plaistow Maternity Hospital attached to the Burges
Road Branch Home, and the Branch at Tidal Basin. In addition
there are several midwives in private practice.
Midwives Acts, 1902 and 1918.
The number of midwives on the roll for 1934 was 51. Of this
number 38 worked in connection with the Maternity Hospital and
District Nurses' Home, Plaistow, and its branches-3 at Sir Henry
Tate Nurses' Home, Silvertown-3 at the Kelvingrove Nurses'
Home, Windsor Road, and 7 practised independently.
Summary of Visits Paid during 1934 by Nurses of
Plaistow Maternity Hospital and District Nurses Home.
Midwifery 530, Monthly 161, Hospital 354.
Maternity and Nursing Homes.—Nursing Homes Registration
Act, 1927.
1. Number of applications for registration Nil
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(b) Withdrawn Nil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