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vi. Professional Nursing in the Home. During the year
nursing assistance was available in all parts of the Borough.
Such assistance is provided by four Nursing Associations, as
follows :—
Woolwich and Plumstead District Nursing Association :
All Woolwich (except North Woolwich) and
Plumstead.
Silvertown and North Woolwich District Nursing Association
:
North Woolwich.
Eltham Provident Nursing Association :
All Eltham (except New Eltham).
New Eltham Nursing Association :
New Eltham.
All these Associations insist that the patient shall be under
the care of a medical practitioner and, in ordinary circumstances,
only nurse non-infectious cases. On the recommendation
of the Medical Officer of Health, however, they provide
nursing assistances for cases of Measles, Whooping Cough,
Zymotic Enteritis, Ophthalmia Neonatorum, Tuberculosis,
Anterior Poliomyelitis, Puerperal Fever and Puerperal
Pyrexia. For these diseases the Borough Council pay, in
necessitous cases, in accordance with the following schedule :—
Disease.
Measles
Ophthalmia Neonatorum.
Zymotic Enteritis
Whooping Cough
Poliomyelitis
Pneumonia and
Influenzal Pneumonia
Puerperal Fever
Puerperal Pyrexia
Rate of Payment.
1s. per visit for one case ;
6d. per visit, per case, for
more than one case in the
house at the same time.
1s. 3d. per visit.