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Hospitals for Children under 5 years.
1. St. Mary's Hospital, E.13 10 232 529
2. Children's Hospital, Balaam St.,
E.13 (Orthopaedic) 10 28 151
Number of children under five years in Homes and Hospitals,
outside the Borough, 35.
Number of weeks spent in such Homes, 202.
Maternity Homes in Borough.
There are 3 registered Maternity Homes in the Borough, one
of these being the Plaistow Maternity Hospital, where there
is no resident medical Officer, although medical help is readily
available.
The other two maternity homes are private nursing homes
with beds for maternity patients; one home has one maternity
room, the other has two rooms reserved for midwifery cases. The
other patients treated in both these homes are chronic medical
cases.
Visits of inspection are paid periodically to all these registered
premises, and the work in the homes has been found to be satisfactory.
Maternity Homes Registration Act.
(1) Number of applications for registration 4
(2) Number of Homes registered 3
*(3) Number refused registration 1
(4) Number of appeals against such orders —
(5) Number of cases in which such orders for refusal
for registration have been
(a) Confirmed on appeal —
and
(b) Disallowed —
(6) Number of applications for exemption from
tration —
(7) Number of cases in which exemption has been
(a) Granted —
(b) Withdrawn —
(c) Refused —
*Registration of home refused on the grounds that
the premises were unsuitable in every respect.
List of Complaints for which Children under five years were
treated at St. Mary's Hospital, and at the Children's Hospital,
Balaam Street:—
109