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Stoke Newington 1933
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Stoke Newington, The Metropolitan Borough]
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Tuberculosis Nurse.—The Borough employs a part-time
nurse who gives 3 days weekly to visiting in the homes for preparing
reports on home circumstances and for giving advice. A very
necessary and important part of her duty is to keep in touch with
all the cases on the register kept by the Medical Officer of Health,
and she must be specially well versed in the conditions and circumstances
of those patients attending the Dispensary.
The Nurses' work for 1933 is as follows:—
| Initial Home Visits | 94 |
| Following up Visits | 940 |
| Attendances at the Dispensary and Care Com | |
| mittee Meetings | 50 |
| Total | 1,084 |
The allowances of extra nourishment for necessitous cases
cost £77 10s. 10d. during the year.
The Public Health (Prevention of Tuberculosis)
Regulations, 1925.—No action was necessary during the year
under these Regulations, which provide that :—
No person who is aware that he is suffering from Tuberculosis
of the respiratory tract should enter upon any employment or
occupation in connection with a dairy which would involve the
milking of cows, the treatment of milk or the handling of vessels
used for containing milk, and if a Local Authority are satisfied
that a person residing in their district who is engaged in any such
occupation is suffering from respiratory Tuberculosis and is in an
infectious state, they may require such person to discontinue his
employment.
Compulsory Removal of Tuberculous Cases to Hospital.—
Public Health Act, 1925 (Sec. 62).—No action required in 1933.