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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.
There has been a considerable fall in the number of cases
nursed during the year for the Borough Council by both Associations.
This is partly accounted for by the excellent weather
during the year and the consequent drop in the number of cases of
respiratory disease. The fee payable by the Borough Council
was reduced from 1/4 to 1/- per visit as from the 1st April, 1933
St. Olave's Rotherhithe Totals
District Queen's whole
Disease Nursing Nursing Borough
Association Association
Cases Visits Cases Visits Cases Visits
Pneumonia 28 592 10 179 38 771
Broncho pneumonia 1 27 — — 1 27
Bionchitis 8 106 1 25 9 131
Influenza 35 574 14 319 49 893
Measles 25 623 5 64 30 687
Whooping Cough 1 12 — — 1 12
Tuberculosis:—
(a) Respiratory
System 36 1,880 21 1,304 57 3,184
(6) Other Forms 2 164 3 68 5 232
Puerperal Pyrexia — — — — — —
Puerperal Fever — — — — — —
Pregnancy and Labour 22 492 5 84 27 576
Diseases of the Digestive
System 36 312 17 175 53 487
Infantile Diarrhoea
(under 2 years) — — — — — —
Discharging Ears 5 171 7 130 12 301
Discharging Eyes 10 135 11 220 21 355
Post-operative cases:—
(a) Tonsils & Adenoids 17 74 4 16 21 90
(6) Other cases 2 15 — — 2 15
Other diseases 30 621 7 221 37 842
Totals 258 5,798 105 2.805 363 8,603