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Professional Nursing in the Home.
(a) General. No provision is made by the Council.
(b) For Infectious Diseases. Arrangements are made with the
Blackheath and Charlton District Nursing Association : St. John
the Divine Home, Deptford, and the Ranyard Nurses for nursing
selected cases of Measles, Ophthalmia Neonatorum, Influenza,
Dysentery, Epidemic Diarrhœa, Malaria and Pneumonia, upon
an intimation from the Public Health Dept. The Council's Health
Visitors also give advice and assist as far as possible.
Midwives.—No midwives are employed or subsidised by the
Council. There are 20 practising in the district.
Laboratory Work.—The long-standing arrangement with the
Bacteriological Department of the Seamen's Hospital has been in
force throughout the year, whereby that Institution carried out all
necessary pathological and bacteriological work for this Department,
other than under the Sale of Food and Drugs Act, and in this connection
2,444 specimens have been examined for Diphtheria, 12 for
Typhoid Fever, 353 for Tuberculosis, and 33 for other various
conditions.
Fuller details respecting results of the examinations of these
specimens will be found under the different headings of the individual
diseases.
Thirty-eight tubes of Diphtheria Antitoxin, containing a total
of 304,000 units of serum, have been supplied during the year to
Medical Practitioners for the treatment of patients suffering from
this disease.
HOSPITAL AND OTHER FORMS OF GRATUITOUS
MEDICAL RELIEF.
I am again indebted to the Secretaries of the Hospitals situated
in the Borough for kindly giving me information regarding gratuitous
medical relief.
The Seamen's Hospital have admitted, treated and maintained
490 Greenwich persons for an average of eighteen days
each, being an increase of 191 over last year's figure, in addition to
which there have been 3,040 Out-patients, making approximately
9,120 attendances of persons belonging to the Borough of Greenwich,
compared with 2,904 out-patients for the previous year.