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COST.
Domiciliary.
The treatment of forty cases by domiciliary means probably
means that each case wants twenty visits by a trained
nurse, and the time of each visit can be put at one hour.
This means that 800 hours, or 22 weeks per annum, would
be devoted to this work, or approximately half her time.
Her work would have to be carried out under medical
supervision, and advice which, including attendances at
clinics, would probably occupy the time of a doctor about
one day and a half a week.
The Committee will recognise that this work is a new
departure, and that no provision exists in the way of staff
or otherwise for carrying it on.
Hospital Cases.
The eight cases for hospital would probably remain in
hospital for a matter of, say, four weeks each.
The Medical Superintendent of the Isolation Hospital
informs me that he would be able to deal with these cases
from time to time, provided the existing accommodation at
the Hospital was not fully occupied by cases of other infectious
diseases.