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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 Diarrhœa, 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.
St. Olave's
District
Nursing
Association
Rotherhithe
Queen's
Nursing
Association
Totals
whole
Borough
Disease
Cases
Visits
Cases
Visits
Cases
Visits
39
831
26
597
13
234
Pneumonia
12
190
Broncho pneumonia
12
190
-
-
508
8
38
609
Bronchitis
30
101
746
17
291
65
1,037
Influenza
48
106
Measles
5
1
15
6
121
2
43
10
243
Whooping Cough
8
200
Tuberculosis:—
(a) Respiratory
System
49
1,319
71
3,772
2,453
22
3
9
572
(b) Other Forms
6
313
259
1
18
1
18
-
Puerperal Pyrexia
-
-
-
-
Puerperal Fever
-
-
-
181
44
Pregnancy and Labour
39
626
6
807
Diseases of the Digestive
System
242
26
167
10
75
36
7
Infantile Diarrhoea
(under 2 years)
1
6
2
13
1
14
274
70
19
344
Discharging Ears
5
5
39
3
34
8
73
Discharging Eyes
Post-operative cases:—
61
21
19
82
(a) Tonsils & Adenoids
14
5
(b) Other cases
Other diseases
1
7
1
7
-
496
-
33
6
112
39
608
9,569
317
6,801
419
102
2,768
Totals