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NURSING.
The following table shows the number of patients nursed
under the Council's Scheme, the diseases from which these
patients were suffering and the number of visits paid. Under
this scheme the Council assists in the provision of nursing for
expectant and nursing mothers, children under five, and for
patients suffering from the following diseases : —Measles, German
Measles, Whooping Cough, Puerperal Fever and Puerperal
Pyrexia, Epidemic Diarrhœa, Dysentery, Influenza, Ophthalmia
Neonatorum, Polio-myelitis, Encephalitis Lethargica, Malaria,
Acute Primary and Acute Influenzal Pneumonia and Tuberculosis.
The fee payable by the Borough Council to the Nursing Associations
is Is. per visit.
We are very much indebted to the authorities of both Nursing
Associations for the valuable help received from them in connection
with this scheme and particularly for their invaluable aid in
nursing cases of measles and tuberculosis.
St. Olave's
District
Nursing
Association
Rotherhithe
Queen's
Nursing
Association
Totals
whole
Borough
Disease
Cases Visits Cases Visits Cases Visits
Pneumonia 26 423 7 110 33 533
Broncho pneumonia 5 92 2 28 7 120
Bronchitis 10 115 13 11 128
Influenza 31 408 2 15 33 423
Measles 7 140 2 38 9 178
Whooping Cough
Tuberculosis:—
(a) Respiratory
System 27 2,325 8 241 35 2,566
(6) Other Forms 1 106 — — 1 106
Puerperal Pyrexia 1 36 2 44 3 80
Puerperal Fever — — — — — —
Pregnancy and Labour 25 390 7 67 32 457
Diseases of the Digestive
System 14 127 — — 14 127
Infantile Diarrhoea
(under 2 years) — — — — — —
Discharging Ears 3 49 — — 3 49
Discharging Eyes 1 10 2 41 3 51
Post-operative cases
(a) Tonsils & Adenoids — — — — — —
(6)other cases 3 19 3 24 6 43
Other diseases 20 222 3 30 23 252
Totals 174 4,462 39 651 213 5,113