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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 East Ham District
Nursing Association, Ascot Lodge, Shrewsbury Road.
The services of Nurse Kelley are available for social welfare cases.
B. Infectious Disease.
Owing to the situation of the Authority's hospital and the danger
of enemy air attack, the staff and patients were removed in September
1939, to Woodford Green. One of the wards at the Harts Sanatorium
was (and still is) used for the patients, and the staff were accommodated
in premises adjacent to the institution. The bed state was
considerably decreased. Hospital treatment is advised in all cases of
diphtheria and in scarlet fever when accommodation is available. No
provision is made for the nursing of infectious disease in the home.
C. Midwives.
In addition to the Council midwives mothers are attended by the
sister midwives and nurses from Plaistow Maternity Hospital and
those attached to the Burges Road Home. 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 practice
in East Ham during 1946 was 43. Of this number 25 worked in
connection with the Maternity Hospital and District Nurses' Home,
Plaistow, and its branches—3 at Sir Henry Tate Nurses' Home,
Silvertown—8 at East Ham Memorial Hospital—and 7 practised
independently, including 6 Municipal Midwives.
Plaistow Maternity Hospital and District Nurses Home.
Summary of cases, 1946:—
Midwifery 311 Monthly 194 Hospital 228