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In addition a nursing home for medical, chronic and
maternity cases and a home for chronic cases only were
re-registered.
The nursing homes were periodically inspected and
supervised.
Eighty visits of inspection were made. Seventeen were
in connection with applications for registration, forty were
routine visits and seventeen 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 Bye-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. In 1937 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;
(b) forthwith, of a rise of temperature of any maternity
patient to 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit for twenty-four
hours or its recurrence within that period.
A copy of these Bye-laws was duly sent to every nursing
home in the Borough.
Examination of Employees.
During the year 1938, one hundred and fifty-one
employees were medically examined. In addition one
hundred and thirty-six candidates were medically examined
for superannuated posts under the Council.
Mortuary.
I am indebted to the Superintendent of the Cemetery for
the figures regarding the use of the new mortuary during
1938.
One hundred and fifteen bodies were received into the
mortuary and post-mortems were conducted on sixty of these.
This figure is equivalent to 12.39 per cent. of the deaths
registered as occurring in the Borough.
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