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NURSING.
The following table shows the number of patients nursed
under the Council's Scheme, the diseases from which these
patients were suffering and the number of visits paid. Under
this scheme the Council assists in the provision of nursing for
expectant and nursing mothers, children under five, and for
patients suffering from the following diseases : —Measles, German
Measles, Whooping Cough, Puerperal Fever and Puerperal
Pyrexia, Epidemic Diarrhoea, Dysentery, Influenza, Ophthalmia
Neonatorum, Polio-myelitis, Encephalitis Lethargica, Malaria,
Acute Primary and Acute Influenzal Pneumonia and Tuberculosis.
Disease
St. Olave's
District
Nursing
Association
Rotherhithe
Queen's
Nursing
Association
Totals
whole
Borough
Visits
Cases
Cases
Visits
Cases
Visits
Pneumonia 42 1,018 24 667 66 1,685
Broncho pneumonia 251 9 254 23 505
Bronchitis 31 455 4 38 35 493
Influenza 36 779 11 154 47 933
Measles 12 166 3 48 15 214
Whooping Cough 1 23 1 12 2 35
Tuberculosis:—
(a) Respiratory
System 75 3,831 43 2,218 118 6,049
(6) Other Forms 7 316 1 127 8 443
Puerperal Pyrexia - - 1 10 1 10
Puerperal Fever 1 38 - - 1 38
Pregnancy and Labour 47 812 8 163 55 975
Diseases of the Digestive
System 33 187 16 78 49 265
Infantile Diarrhoea
(under 2 years) 3 29 2 14 5 43
Discharging Ears 11 397 1 8 12 405
Discharging Eyes 7 216 7 1 217 14 433
Post-operative cases:—
(a) Tonsils & Adenoids 50 216 10 36 60 252
(6) Other cases 1 8 3 44 4 52
Other diseases 27 541 5 80 32 621
Totals 398 9,283 149 4.108 547 13,451