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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.
The fee payable by the Borough Council to the Nursing Associations
is 1s. per visit.
We are very much indebted to the authorities of both Nursing
Associations for the valuable help received from them in connection
with this scheme and particularly for their invaluable aid in
nursing cases of measles and tuberculosis.
Disease
St. Olave's
District
Nursing
Association
Rotherhithe
Queen's
Nursing
Association
Totals
whole
Borough
Cases Visits Cases Visits Cases Visits
Pneumonia 35 907 16 316 51 1,223
Broncho pneumonia 10 201 1 16 11 217
Bronchitis 26 323 3 45 29 368
Influenza 24 439 3 84 27 523
Measles 76 1,405 41 577 117 1,982
Whooping Cough 8 103 4 58 12 161
Tuberculosis:—
(a) Respiratory
System 34 1,344 12 705 46 2,049
(b) Other Forms 8 734 1 89 9 823
Puerperal Pyrexia 1 24 — — 1 24
Puerperal Fever - - - - - -
Pregnancy and Labour 51 688 14 154 65 842
Diseases of the Digestive
System 19 188 8 77 27 265
Infantile Diarrhoea
(under 2 years) 2 12 - - 2 12
Discharging Ears 10 262 5 107 15 369
Discharging Eyes 16 425 6 41 22 466
Post operative cases:—
(a) Tonsils & Adenoids 9 46 2 17 11 63
(b) Other cases 4 32 3 15 7 47
Other diseases 53 823 5 96 58 919
Totals 386 7,956 124 2,397 510 10,353