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NURSING.
Harrow is well supplied with Nurses. The District
Nursing Fund, under the superintendence of Miss Colbeck,
has a staff of four nurses, viz., Nurse M. Byerley,
Nurse Stevenson, Nurse Pitcairn and Nurse O'Neill,
who do excellent general nursing.
The Council makes an annual grant to this fund for
their services as part-time Heatlh Visitors.
On special forms these nurses keep me informed of
cases of infectious disease coming under their notice,
epidemic diarrhoea, sore throats, etc.
MATERNITY NURSE.
Nurse Kindell continues to act as the attendant
nurse at the Ante-natal Clinic, and for emergent cases
of parturition; otherwise she is privately engaged as a
midwife, or with the resident medical practitioners.
Her work for 1925 included attendances at all the
sessions (Tuesday afternoons); visits to expectant
mothers (treatment as Dr. Huxley advises, e.g., bandaging
varicose veins, etc.); 51 maternity cases attended in
the district, of which there were 33 doctors' cases, for
14 days as maternity nurse, and 18 midwifery cases
attended in ten days, and these patients attended the
Ante-natal Clinc.
LIST OF ACTS ADOPTED IN THE HARROW
URBAN DISTRICT.
Infectious Disease Prevention Act, 1890.
Public Health Acts, Amendment Act, 1890.
Public Health Acts, Amendment Act, 1907.
Public Heatlh Acts, Amendment Act, 1925.
BY-LAWS IN FORCE.
Common Lodging Houses, Slaughter Houses, Nuisances,
Cleansing of Earth Closets, Privies and Ash-pits,
Removal of House Refuse, Houses Let in Lodgings,
Provision of means of escape in case of Fire, Factories
and Workshops, Pleasure Grounds and Open Spaces,
Fish Frving, New Streets and Buildings, Dairies, Cowsheds
and Milk Shop Regulations.