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HOME NURSING
(Section 25)
The Superintendent of the District Nurses' Home, Miss C.
A. Lee, S.R.N., S.C.M., reports as follows:—
"The year 1949 has been a busy but uneventful one.
Work on the general side has been kept up to standard both
in quality and quantity. Midwifery work has declined considerably.
"The Home is in urgent need of re-decoration. This
would have been undertaken by the Voluntary Committee if
a permit to do so could have been obtained in time before the
appointed day.
"There is also urgent need for further accommodation,
preferably by providing a Home at Highams Park. A second
car is also greatly needed.
"From the 3rd December, 1948 to the 8th December,
1949, twenty-one pupils entered for their District Midwifery
Training.
"Staff at the 31st December, 1949, was as follows:—
2 Midwives.
1 Queen's Nurse/Midwife.
2 Full-time S.R.N., S.C.M.
2 Full-time S.R.N.
1 Part-time Male Nurse.
1 Part-time S.R.N., S.C.M.
1 Part-time S.R.N.
1 Part-time S.E.A.N.
4 Pupil Midwives.
"Midwifery and Maternity Nursing undertaken during
the year was as follows:—
Doctors' cases 64
Midwives' cases 123
Total 187
Gas and Air administered 39
Maternity Outfits supplied 202