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SPECIAL CAUSES OF SICKNESS.
Reference will be made subsequently to a special outbreak of
paratyphoid (B) fever occurring during the summer months of
the year.
NURSING ARRANGEMENTS, CLINICS, HOSPITALS AND
OTHER INSTITUTIONS AVAILABLE IN THE TOWN.
A.—Professional Nursing in the Home.
(i) General.—The Croydon Nursing Service was established
in 1921. It provides a staff of trained nurses to attend the sick at
their homes. The services of the nurses are obtainable either by
joining in an insurance scheme, whereby an annual payment
ensures attendance on husband, wife, and children under 18 years
of age; or through provident clubs; or, on occasion, by the payment
of fees on the ordinary recognised scales.
(ii) For infectious diseases, e.g., measles, etc.—Arrangements
have been made for the home nursing of cases of measles, whooping
cough, ophthalmia neonatorum, puerperal fever, epidemic
diarrhoea, and infantile paralysis by the Croydon Nursing Service,
at a fixed charge to the Corporation of 2s. per visit, where the case
is referred by the Medical Officer of Health on account of necessitous
conditions and inadequate home attention, and where
circumstances prevent removal to a hospital.
The health visitors systematically visit the homes and give
advice to parents as to the nursing and general care of such
children.
One health visitor is engaged in the home nursing of bedridden
tuberculous patients.
B.—Mid wives
No practising midwives are employed or subsidised by the
local authority.
59 midwives practised in the Borough in 1925.