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The Empire Nursing Association.
Licences are issued annually subject to re-inspection and satisfactory report.
Medical Arrangements for Children's Homes
Reception Home, Rosebery House, 7/9, Rosebery Road, Cheam.
Throwley House, 10, Throwley Road, Sutton.
Malvern House, Foxley Road, Kenley.
Camperdown Children's Home, 146, Woodcote Road, Wallington.
Dean House, 95, Nutfield Road, Merstham.
Working Girls' Hostel, 57, Montagu Gardens, Wallington.
A general practitioner residing near the Reception Home is responsible for the examination
of new admissions and discharges as well as for medical treatment.
At all other Homes a general practitioner is responsible for medical treatment. Examination
of new admissions and discharges are carried out by medical officers in the department.
In addition, a medical officer visits all the Homes regularly, carries out routine medical
inspections annually on all children resident in the Home and is responsible for seeing that any special
investigations and immunisations against infectious disease are carried out. Advice is also given to the
houseparents on any medical aspect concerned with the care of the children.
Each Home is inspected regularly by the Principal Medical Officer and a report on
environmental conditions and the health of the children submitted.
Staff Medical Examinations
Officers
In order to ascertain fitness for employment, the candidate either completes a medical
questionnaire or a full medical examination is carried out by a member of the medical staff as soon
as possible following interview and before an appointment is confirmed.
The medical examination includes a routine x-ray examination of chest for all members
of the staff having close contact with children and those who have been exposed to tuberculous
infection. X-ray examination of other members of the staff is carried out when the examining medical
officer considers it is desirable.
Bacteriological and other investigations may be required at the discretion of the Medical
Officer of Health.
Manual Staff
A medical examination to ascertain fitness for employment is carried out by the Medical
Officer of Health or a member of the medical staff within 6 months of first being employed and no
further medical examination is required prior to acceptance into the Superannuation scheme.
Manual staff who are in close contact with children and those who have been exposed
to tuberculous infection have an x-ray examination of chest and at the discretion of the Medical
Officer of Health, bacteriological examination of stools or any other investigation considered
necessary.
Employees of the Council generally
Certain members of staff having close contact with children are required to have a
periodic x-ray examination of the chest, for example, health visitors, district nurses, child care
officers, etc. A similar condition was introduced for teaching and ancillary staff at schools in
September, 1969.
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