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Nursing Homes Registration Act, 1927. Public Health Act,
1936—Part VI.
The Wimbledon Borough Council is responsible for the
supervision of nursing homes in Wimbledon. At the end of
the year there were fifteen registered nursing homes,
namely:-
Nursing Homes for Maternity Cases 1
Nursing Homes for Medical, Surgical, and
Maternity Cases 3
Nursing Homes for Medical, Surgical,
Chronic, and Maternity Cases 1
Nursing Homes for General Medical and
Chronic Cases 2
Nursing Homes for Chronic Cases 8
Total 15
Certificates of registration were issued by the Council in
respect of a nursing home for maternity cases and a nursing
home for chronic cases during 1937.
One maternity home and two nursing homes for chronic
cases were discontinued.
The nursing homes were periodically inspected and
supervised.
Forty-seven visits of inspection were made. Two were
in connection with applications for registration, thirty were
routine visits and fifteen special visits.
The nursing homes in Wimbledon were again found to
be maintained and run in a satisfactory manner. Close
supervision was paid during the visits to the way in which the
records of the homes were kept, and in a few cases it was
necessary to draw the attention of the proprietors concerned to
the requirements of the Bve-laws.
Section 123 of the Surrey County Council Act, 1936, provides
for the making of additional Bye-laws with regard to
infectious diseases occurring in nursing homes. The Council
decided to utilise these powers and the Bye-laws which they
made came into operation on 1st November, 1937. These
Bye-laws require persons carrying on nursing homes to notify
the Medical Officer of Health
(a) within a period of twenty-four hours of infectious
disease occurring in such a home;
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