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Maternity and Nursing Homes in the Borough.
There are three registered Maternity Homes in the Borough,
one of these being the Plaistow Maternity Hospital, where,
although there is no resident Medical Officer, medical help is
readily available. The other two Maternity Homes are Private
Nursing Homes with beds for maternity patients; one Home has
accommodation for one maternity case only, the other having 2
rooms reserved for midwifery cases. Chronic medical cases are
treated also in both these homes.
There is one other Nursing Home in the Borough, with
accommodation for three chronic medical or senile cases.
These Homes are all registered under the Nursing Homes
Registration Act which came into force in 1928, and are inspected
periodically.
(1) Number of applications for registration in 1929 —
(2) Number of Homes registered 4
(3) Number refused registration —
(4) Number of appeals against such order —
(5) Number of cases in which such orders for refusal for
registration have been :—
(a) Confirmed on appeal —
• (b) Disallowed —
(6) Applications for exemption from registration —
(7) Number of cases in which exemption has been
(a) Granted —
(b) Withdrawn —
(c) Refused —
Convalescent Homes for Children.
The treatment at Convalescent Homes has again proved invaluable
in restoring to health after acute or chronic illness many
children under 5 years of age. During 1929, eighty-two children
under 5 were sent to convalescent homes at the expense of the
Council, through the Invalid Children's Aid Association and Invalid
and Crippled Children's Society. These children are referred
for examination to the Assistant Medical Officer of Health for
Maternity and Child Welfare, who gives a certificate stating the
length of convalescent treatment necessary. The children are
recommended by their private doctors, or by the Medical Officers
of Hospitals or Infant Welfare Clinics; and great benefit is derived
by such children as a result of a regular routine life in wholesome
surroundings, with good food and adequate rest. There is
a great need for the extension of this service, whereby toddlers
under 2 years of age and young infants may be fully restored to
health after illness. At present it is difficult to place these little
children in the existing Homes, where the staff is not usually
adequate, either in numbers or in training, to deal with such cases.
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