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made for collecting soiled linen which is laundered at Millfields Cleansing and
Disinfecting Station and subsequently returned to the patient's family. The
laundry is collected in a suitable container once or twice a week, and returned
some three or four days later. Some 7, 000 incontinence pads were issued during
the year, but no special arrangement has been made for their disposal. In
respect of the incontinent laundry some 38,000 articles were laundered.
In addition to the above services, the Department provides facilities for
the bathing of old people who have no suitable facilities at Home. With the
agreement of the family doctor, if it is thought medically appropriate, old
persons are conveyed to the Millfields Centre and bathed and subsequently
returned home. Alternatively, where it is thought that an old person should
be bathed at home, but not blanket bathed by a district nurse, an appropriate
attendant with a van from the Department, hot water, etc., attends on the old
person and carries out the bathing at home. some 72 persons had 1,233 baths
at the Millfields Centre, and 61 persons received 1,065 baths in their own
homes.
BLIND PERSONS
In accordance with the former London County Council practice, arrangements
were made within the Department for the examination of all persons who might
be considered blind or partially sighted, in order to ascertain whether their
names should be entered in the appropriate register; 169 cases were examined
during the year. It is intended in the future that the day-to-day administration
of this service should be undertaken by the Welfare Department, although the
purely medical arrangements will still be dealt with by this Department.
RE-HOUSING ON MEDICAL GROUNDS
A Principal Medical Officer, an Administrative Officer and two Housing
Officers, hold regular meetings, usually once a month to discuss urgent rehousing
problems on medical grounds.
Each case is discussed and placed in an urgent or non-urgent category.
The figures from the 1st April 1965 to the 31st December 1965 were as
follows:-
Urgent - 43
Non-Urgent - 5
NURSERIES AND CHILD-MINDERS REGULATION ACT, 1948
Private day Nurseries
Under the provisions of the Nurseries and Child Minders Regulation Act,
1948, one private Day Nursery, 'Pam Nursery' was registered with this Borough,
and continued to be inspected regularly by a medical officer of the Department
until its closure in December, 1965.
Two new private day nurseries were in process of being registered one at
the Church Hall, Church of Our Lady of Good Counsel, Bouverie Road, N.16,
to take up to 40 children of 2-5 years, the other under the direction of the
Save the Children Fund, at Hemsworth Street, Hoxton, N.l. Initial inspections
of these premises were made by a senior medical officer, and the Co-ordinating
Nursing Officer of the Department to report on their suitability; and subsequent
and routine inspections ensure that the requirements of the Council are
observed.
Child Minders
During 1965, there was 23 registered child minders in the Borough,
receiving each a small number of children.