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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 Diarrhoea, Malaria and Pneumonia,
upon an intimation from the Public Health Department.
The Council's Health Visitors also give advice and assist as far
as possible.
Midwives.—No district 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 2,916 specimens have been examined for
Diphtheria, 15 for Typhoid Fever, 389 for Tuberculosis, and 50
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.
Twenty-eight tubes of Diphtheria Anti-toxin, containing a
total of 224,000 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
455 Greenwich persons for an average of seventeen days
each, in addition to which there have been 3,240 Out-patients,
making approximately 9.720 attendances of persons belonging to
the Borough of Greenwich. The number of Out-patients for the
previous year was 4,280, which shows a decrease of over 1,000.
with a corresponding decrease in the number of Out-patient
attendances.