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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 Is. 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
Totals
whole
Borough
Rotherhithe
Queen's
Nursing
Association
Disease
Cases Visits Cases Visits Cases Visits
Pneumonia 40 860 11 219 51 1,079
Bronchopneumonia 7 1 147 2 35 9 182
Bronchitis 24 341 5 52 29 393
Influenza 28 417 3 25 31 442
Measles 116 1,474 66 746 182 2,220
Whooping Cough 3 61 1 8 4 69
Tuberculosis:—
(a) Respiratory
System 30 2,270 22 1,087 52 3,357
(b) Other Forms 8 370 4 66 12 436
Puerperal Pyrexia — — — — — —
Puerperal Fever — — — — — —
Pregnancy and Labour 49 763 5 106 54 869
Diseases of the Digestive
System 28 223 14 109 42 332
Infantile Diarrhoea
(under 2 years) — — — — — —
Discharging Ears 11 316 — — 11 316
Discharging Eyes 9 184 4 74 13 258
Post-operative cases:—
(a) Tonsils & Adenoids 10 43 3 12 13 55
(b)Other cases 5 99 2 19 7 118
Other diseases 44 615 6 71 50 686
Totals 412 8,183 148 2,629 560 10,812