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NURSING ASSISTANCE.
Up to the limits permissible by law, a very complete scheme
of home nursing is now in operation.
Such nursing is carried out by the mediation of a
voluntary organisation, the Shoreditch and Bethnal
Green Nursing Association. For each visit a charge
of tenpence is made to the Council by the Association.
As regards children under the age of five years, the
Ministry of Health have sanctioned expenditure on
the nursing of all sick cases, but grant is only paid by
the Ministry in respect of certain specified conditions,
i.e., Measles, Whooping Cough, Diarrhoea, Ophthalmia
Neonatorum and Poliomyelitis, which come within
the Council's Maternity and Child Welfare Scheme.
During the year 211 children under the age of 5
were nursed, a total of 3,224 visits being made at a
cost of £134 6s. 8d. Of this expenditure £58 4s. 2d.
was expenditure under the Maternity and Child
Welfare Scheme.
Fifteen mothers received 154 visits for nursing in
connection with conditions incidental to child-bearing,
the cost being £6 8s. 4d.
Fifty-four adults and children over 5 received 694
visits for nursing at a cost of £28 18s. 4d.