Report from the Select Committee on Nursing Homes (Registration).

  • Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on Nursing Homes (Registration)
Date:
1926
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Credit: Report from the Select Committee on Nursing Homes (Registration). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    17 June, 1926.] a town, by the Local Medical Officer of Health, or would you prefer the County Medical Officer of Health?—I do not think I should mind which it was. 3881. As long as you had inspection, you want to be inspected by a doctor and you would not mind which doctor ?— No. Mr. Haslam. 3882. Yours is a Home for people who are chronically ill; it is not for surgical casesP—Yes, that is so; I take no surgical work. 3883. You do not profess to, and you do not take them?—No. My house is not equipped in any sense of the word for operations. From some of the hospitals I have had patients when the wound is quite well and they have needed feeding up and rest and perhaps more than they ~ could get at home, and they have come to me for a few weeks and. got well and strong and able to go back to whatever life they were living. 3884, And they get the rest in your Home which they could not obtain at home—the rest and the attention and the feeding up?—Yes. I never have them disturbed in the early morning. We do not begin at five o’clock in the morning, because we have not to prepare for surgeons to come and do dressings, or see wounds, and that kind of thing. Some- times the doctor will come twice or three times a week, or he may come every day, but at any rate it is a Home, and I want the patients to get the rest, and so we do not begin very early. They have a cup of tea at seven o’clock, and then breakfast somewhere between half-past eight and a quarter to nine. The trays are beginning to be taken round about half-past eight, and then they have their lunch at one o’clock, and their tea at four o’clock, and their supper between ‘half-past seven and eight. [ Continued. 3885. In regard to the previous inspec- tions that you referred to in some Home you objected to? Did the Inspectors not look sympathetically at things, or did they make unreasonable requirements ?>— the expenses that they are putting you to. this and you ought to have that?—Yes; and do this and do that and do the other thing, and, of course, one’s purse will not permit it. 3887. 'Those inspectors that you have had experience of yourself you think are rather unreasonable; they put forward unreasonable demandsP—Yes. Of course, I am speaking of an Industrial School; I had charge of the health of the children there. We had 180 children. Chairman. 3888. You had the Home Office In- spector there?—Yes, Home Office and London County Council. Mr. Haslam. is such that you do not want any more? --I do not think I do. Sir Richard Luce. 3890. Which in your opinion are the worst P—The County Council. I liked the Home Office Inspectors as far as they went; they were very nice; the County Council Inspectors were very difficult. Chairman. 3891. Thank you very much. We are much obliged to you for coming.—I am afraid I have not been of very much good. 3892. We are always glad to hear your point of view:—Thank you.