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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 at Ascot Lodge, Shrewsbury 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.
G, 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.
MIDWIVES ACTS, 1902 to 1936
The number of midwives who notified their intention to
practise in East Ham during 1937, was 71. Of this number 46
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 20 practised independently, including 3
Municipal Midwives recently appointed.
Summary of Visits Paid during 1937 by Nurses of
Plaistow Maternity Hospital and District Nurses Home.
Midwifery 384, Monthly 196, Hospital 293.