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NURSING ASSISTANCE.
Up to the limits permissible by law, a very conplete
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,
e.g., Measles, Whooping Cough, Diarrhœa, Ophthalmia
Neonatorum and Poliomyelitis, which come within
the Council's Maternity and Child Welfare Scheme.
During the year 213 children under the age of 5
were nursed, a total of 2,095 visits being made at a
cost of £87 5s. 10d. Of this expenditure £22 3s. 4d.
was expenditure under the Maternity and Child
Welfare Scheme.
Forty-nine mothers received 613 visits for nursing
in connection with conditions incidental to childbearing,
the cost being £25 10s. 10d.
Thirty adults and children over 5 received 246
visits for nursing at a cost of £10 5s.