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SECTION B.—HEALTH SERVICES.
Nursing in the Home. Three voluntary associations
provide nursing facilities in the District. The Council makes
an annual contribution to the funds of each and arrangements
have been agreed for nursing assistance to be available for
cases referred through the Council's Health Services.
(1) The Merton Parish Nurse Fund employs one nurse for
general nursing. No midwifery nor maternity nursing is
undertaken. The district served is approximately the
ecclesiastical parish of St. Mary's. A total of 119 cases
involving 2,052 visits were attended during the year 1940, and
130 cases involving 2,087 visits for 1942. In 1940, of these
cases 9 were children under 5 years of age to whom 65 visits
were made, and in 1942, 49 were children under 5 to whom
78 visits were made.
(2) The St. Helier District Nursing Association employs
one nurse for general nursing. No midwifery nor maternity
nursing is undertaken. Its activities cover the whole of the
Merton and Morden portion of the St Helier Estate and jn
addition that part situated in the Carshalton Urban District
lying to the North of Reigate Avenue.
During 1940 two hundred cases were dealt with by the
St. Helier District Nursing Association; 14 of these were
children under 5. In 1941 one hundred and ten cases were
dealt with, and of these 5 were under 5. In 1942 there were
one hundred and seventeen cases, of which 8 were under 5.
The total number of visits made was 3,477, of which 116
were in respect of children under 5 years for 1940, and the
total number of visits made in 1941 was 2,502, of which 31 were
in respect of children under 5 years of age. In 1942, the total
number of visits was 1,775, of which 29 were children under
5 years of age.
(3) The Wimbledon District Nursing Association serves
Wimbledon and the western part of this District. Nurses are
employed for general nursing in Merton and Morden.