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Report of the Medical Officer of Health.
(II.) by Voluntary Agencies, and suggestions are also made for the
extension of the work:—
Work at present carried on in Wandsworth.
1.—By the Borough Council:—
(a) Health Visiting. Two whole time Health Visitors are
engaged in the work, and two of the female Sanitary Inspectors
also give one-third of their time to it.
The annual cost of this is—
1 Health Visitor at a salary of £120
1 Health Visitor 110
2 Female Sanitary Inspectors at a salary
of £52 each 104
£334
(b) Nursing. Arrangements have been made with the various
Nursing Associations working in the Borough to attend cases of
Measles, Ophthamia Neonatorum, Whooping Cough, and Infantile
Diarrhoea, when and as requested by the Medical Officer of Health,
at a fee of 8d. per visit.
The cost of this work for the year ended March, 1918, was
£52 15s. 4d.
Cases of Puerperal Fever are admitted to the hospitals of the
Metropolitan Asylums Board, and it was not considered necessary
for the Council to enter into arrangements respecting the nursing
of cases of this disease.
(c) Medical Assistance in Maternity Cases. The Council on
the 18th July, 1917, made an arrangement to pay fees to medical
practitioners when called in by registered midwives in cases of
emergency occurring in their practice among necessitous women
in the Borough.