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Massage and
Special
Treatment
Registration and supervision of premises used for the treatment of
persons where massage or similar therapeutic activities were carried out,
continued during 1969. The premises listed in Appendix 8 were all
periodically visited by either a senior departmental medical officer or
senior public health inspector and the standard generally remained
satisfactory. During the year two premises ceased operation and one new
was licensed.
1969 added the registration of a new nursing home: to the three
already operating. This home was for surgical cases and was the first
in this category to be opened in this area since before the last war. Cooperation
between the applicant and the Health and Welfare Department
involving a considerable amount of time and research resulted in an
up-to-date establishment with a modern operating theatre accommodating
twelve patients.
The Nursing homes now licensed are as follows:Name
of Nursing Home Address
Marie Celeste 15/17 Sunset Avenue, Woodford Green
Lady Jane 69 Woodford Avenue, E. 18
St. Anne's 14 Cambridge Park, E11
The Park Clinic 14 Seagry Road, E.11
Nursing
Homes
lurses
Agency
The application and registration of the Nurses Agency (East London))
at 3A Station Bridge, Seven Kings, established the first such Agency
since 1951.
Mortuary
The mortuary situated in St. Mary's Churchyard, 11 ford, previously
under the control of the Borough Engineer was transferred to the Health
and Welfare Department on 1st December, 1969.
This establishment with a nominal capacity for nine bodies, serves
Redbridge and the London Borough of Barking (formerly, the Boroughs
of Barking and Dagenham) the latter on an agency basis. In addition,
bodies are from time to time directed to this mortuary by the Coroner or
by local arrangement from the Boroughs of Newham, Waltham Forest and
Havering.
The'Borough Engineer had been concerned with the rising occupancy
of the mortuary since the London Government Act increased its
catchment area.