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Nursing Arrangements.
The Ranyard Nursing Association operates in Peckham and
also in parts of Camberwell and the Dulwich areas of the Borough;
the Camberwell District Nursing Association in North-West
Camberwell, and the East Dulwich and Dulwich Village Nursing
Association in that part of Dulwich not covered by the Ranyard
nurses; the Rotherhithe District Nursing Association in the area
which lies to the north of Old Kent Road, viz., parts of Wards
Nos. 6 and 7.
The Borough Council pays at the rate of 1s. per visit for
visits made to maternity and infectious disease cases arising out
of maternity, including puerperal septicaemia, and to cases of
illness in children under 5 years of age, and also for patients
suffering from diseases specified in the Public Health (Pneumonia,
Malaria, Dysentery, etc.) Regulations, 1919, and other approved
cases made by the Ranyard Nursing Association and the Camberwell
District Nursing Association.
The Council also has an arrangement with the Rotherhithe
District Nursing Association to pay at the rate of 1s. per visit
made by their nurses to notified cases under the Public Health
(Pneumonia, Malaria, Dysentery, etc.) Regulations, 1919, and to
cases of puerperal septicaemia and ophthalmia neonatorum.
The following table shows the number of cases attended, the
visits paid and the cost of this service to the Council by the
Associations which rendered accounts during the year ended 31st
December, 1926, viz., the Ranyard and Camberwell District
Nursing Associations: —
Quarter ended
Cases.
Visits.
Cost.
£
s.
d.
March
155
1,935
96
15
0
June
129
1,479
73
19
0
September
104
1,016
50
16
0
December
132
1,421
70
18
6
Total
520
5,851
292
8
6
Midwifery.
During 1926 there were 45 practising midwives in the
Borough of Camberwell.
There is also in the Borough a Post Certificate School for
Midwives situated at Southampton Street, Camberwell.
The school is a branch of the General Lying-in Hospital, York
Road, Lambeth, whose purpose is the training of pupil midwives