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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Shoreditch 1937
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]
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NURSING IN THE HOME
The Shoreditch and Bethnal Green District Nursing Association undertakes
home nursing in the Borough and has an agreement with the Borough Council
under which the following types of cases are nursed under medical direction in
consideration of a payment of 1s. 4d. per visit:—(i) cases referred by the Medical
Officer of Health, (ii) children under 5 years of age (the cost of these cases being
chargeable to the M. & C. W. Committee), (iii) cases of notifiable diseases.
Below is a list of cases nursed under this agreement during the year 1937:—
In addition to the cases referred to in the table, the District Nurses paid a
number of visits to otorrhcea cases. These cases are referred to in another section of
this Report (see page 99).
Table No. 49
| Under 5 | Over 5 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disease. | Cases | Visits | Disease. | Cases | Visits |
| Abscess | 1 | 6 | Abortion | 1 | 9 |
| Bronchitis | 10 | 115 | Ante-natal conditions | 7 | 115 |
| Chicken-pox | 1 | 6 | Breast abscess | 1 | 13 |
| Circumcision | 1 | 18 | Enlarged breasts | 3 | 26 |
| Congestion of lungs | 1 | 2 | Influenza | 14 | 104 |
| Constipation | 1 | 2 | Mastitis | 8 | 148 |
| Cut chin | 1 | 6 | Miscarriage | 8 | 108 |
| Diarrhoea | 1 | 6 | Parturition | 5 | 78 |
| Discharging eye | 7 | 113 | Pneumonia | 26 | 464 |
| Gastro enteritis | 2 | 17 | Post-natal condition | 5 | 121 |
| Impetigo | 13 | 210 | Puerperal pyrexia | 1 | 2 |
| Influenza | 1 | 8 | Shingles | 1 | 10 |
| Intestinal | 4 | 41 | Threadworms | 1 | 3 |
| Mastoid | 1 | 4 | Tuberculosis | 13 | 490 |
| Nasal catarrh | 1 | 6 | Wax in ear | 1 | 5 |
| Nasal polypus | 1 | 4 | |||
| Neo-natal condition | 3 | 32 | |||
| Pneumonia | 13 | 215 | |||
| Post-natal condition | 3 | 45 | |||
| Pyrexia | 1 | 6 | |||
| Rheumatism | 1 | 4 | |||
| Septic hand | 1 | 2 | |||
| Septic spots | 1 | 15 | |||
| Septic throat | 2 | 19 | |||
| Spina-bifida | 2 | 63 | |||
| Stomatitis | 2 | 23 | |||
| Threadworms | 29 | 259 | |||
| Tonsils and adenoids | 48 | 230 | |||
| Ulcer of mouth | 3 | 29 | |||
| Totals | 156 | 1,506 | Totals | 95 | 1,696 |