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General Provision of Health Services
Professional Nursing in the Home.
A. GENERAL.
The Council makes a grant in aid of the services of the
Plaistow District Nurses attached to the Branch Home at Ascot
Lodge, Shrewsbury Road.
The services of Nurse Kelley are available for public assistance
cases.
B. INFECTIOUS DISEASE
Hospital treatment is advised in all cases of diphtheria and
scarlet fever. No provision is made for the nursing of infectious
disease in the home but many cases of measles, whooping cough
and bronchial pneumonia are admitted to hospital where the home
conditions are inadequate.
G., MIDWIVES.
The sister midwives and nurses from Plaistow Maternity
Hospital and those attached to the Burges Road Home and the
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 1938, was 53. Of this number 33
worked in connection with the Maternity Hospital and District
Nurses' Home, Plaistow, and its branches—4 at Sir Henry Tate
Nurses' Home, Silvertown—2 at the Kelvingrove Nursing Home
Windsor Road—and 14 practised independently, including 3
Municipal Midwives.
Summary of Visits Paid during 1938 by Nurses of
Plaistow Maternity Hospital and District Nurses Home.
Midwifery 334, Monthly 181, Hospital 275.