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For Public Assistance Cases the services of Nurse Kelley are
available upon the recommendation of the patient's medical attendant.
B. INFECTIOUS DISEASE
Admission to hospital is advised of all cases of diphtheria and
scarlet fever and statistics shew a high percentage of acceptances.
No provision is made for the nursing of infectious disease in the
home but many cases of measles, whooping cough and bronchopneumonia
are admitted to hospital where the home conditions are
inadequate. The satisfactory results obtained warrant such procedure.
C. MIDWIVES.
The sister midwives and nurses of the Plaistow Maternity
Hospital attached to the Burges Road Home and Branch at Tidal
Basin attend mothers in the district. No midwives are subsidized
by the Council.
MIDWIVES ACTS, 1902 and 1918
The number of midwives who notified their intention to
practise in East Ham during, 1935, was 55. Of this number 39
worked in connection with the Maternity Hospital and District
Nurses' Home, Plaistow, and its branches—3 at Sir Henry Tate
Nurses' Home, Silvertown—1 at the Kelvingrove Nursing Home,
Windsor Road,—1 from Oldchurch Hospital, Romford, and 11
practised independently.
Summary of Visits Paid during 1935 by Nurses of
Plaistow Maternity Hospital and District Nurses Home.
Midwifery 402, Monthly 165, Hospital 367.
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