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Professional Nursing in the Home.
No provision is made for carrying out professional nursing
in the homes, except in the case of two nurses, who are fully
employed by two whole-time District Medical Officers. The Voluntary
Associations in the Borough, who have a large supply of
competent nurses available for service at any time, perform a very
considerable amount of work by attending necessitous cases. The
fullest co-operation is maintained between these Societies and the
Council, both as regards home nursing and health visiting.
The Essex County Nursing Association, from their branch in
Beechcroft Road, Leytonstone, supplies the Forest Gate section
of the Borough with home-nurses, and the Silvertown area is
similarly supplied through the Tate Nurses (Queen's Nurses)
Home, Saville Road, Silvertown. The greater part of the nursing
in the homes is carried out by the Plaistow Maternity Hospital,
which provides a training school for District Nurses, and a
maternity hospital.
With regard to infectious diseases, there are no municipal
arrangements for nursing of this description in the home. All
cases requiring hospital treatment are, whenever possible, removed
to the Council's Isolation Hospital and, if this institution is full,
to the London Fever Hospital.
Maternity and Nursing Homes.
There are three registered homes in the Borough (see page
53-54).
School Clinics and Treatment Centres.
School Clinics.
Stratford Clinic, 2 Dental Clinics
84 West Ham Lane, 1 Minor Ailment Clinic
Stratford, E.15. 1 Ophthalmic Clinic
Balaam Street Clinic, 1 Minor Ailment Clinic
Plaistow, E.13. 1 Dental Clinic
Rosetta Road Clinic, 1 Minor Ailment Clinic
Custom House, E.16. 1 Dental Clinic
Swanscombe Street Clinic, 1 Minor Ailment Clinic
Canning Town, E.16. 1 Dental Clinic
Treatment Centres.
Children's Hospital, Orthopaedic and Sunlight Clinics,
Balaam Street, E.13. and Psychological Clinic
Tuberculosis Dispensary.
Balaam Street, Plaistow, E.13 (see pages 132-135).
Maternity and Child Welfare Clinics.
See pages 51 and 54, Maternity and Child Welfare Section.
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