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General Provision of Health Services
Professional Nursing in the Home.
A. GENERAL.
The services of the Plaistow District Nurses attached to the
Branch Home in Katherine Road are of inestimable benefit to residents
of East Ham. The Authority makes a grant in aid of these
services.
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. The midwives from the
Sir Henry Tate Home attend a few mothers in the North Woolwich
area. 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 1936, was 56. Of this number 37
worked in connection with the Maternity Hospital and District
Nurses' Home, Plaistow, and its branches—3 at Sir Henry Tate
Nurses' Home, Silvertown—2 at the Kelvingrove Nursing Home,
Windsor Road—and 14 practised independently.
Summary of Visits Paid during 1936 by Nurses of
Plaistow Maternity Hospital and District Nurses Home.
Midwifery 430, Monthly 156, Hospital 329.