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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Islington 1926
Seventy-first annual report on the health and sanitary condition of the Metropolitan Borough of Islington
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HOME VISITATION—TUBERCULOSIS.
A Municipal Tuberculosis Visiting- Nurse. Miss Emilv McGoldrick, commenced
duties 3rd June, 1925, this is in addition to the visitation work of the
dispensary nurses.
Duties of Municipal Tuberculosis Visiting Nurse.
The Special Tuberculosis Visiting- Nurse shall visit " Tuberculosis
Dispensary " cases in their homes, contacts of any tuberculous case or cases,
suspects, or contacts which the Tuberculosis Officers desire to attend for examination
or require any information about.
She shall report regularly to, and take her instructions from, the Tuberculosis
Officers at the Dispensaries, and if required shall by arrangement attend at either
Dispensary at other times.
Her duties shall commence at 9 a.m. (at which hour she shall report at the
Public Health Department, where office accommodation will be provided for her)
and terminate at 5 p.m. with an interval for luncheon of one hour, Saturdays
9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Her time will be, as far as possible, equally divided between the work of the
Southern and Northern Dispensaries.
She shall not be under the control of the Matron of either hospital at which
the Dispensaries are established, and shall not be used as locum tenens for the
tuberculosis nurses.
She shall hold office as provided in the Agreement of the Council with the
Royal Northern Hospital Corporation, but her main duties will be visitation in
the homes as set out above, and will differ from the other Tuberculosis Dispensary
Nurses inasmuch as she will not attend the Dispensary Sessions (unless for some
special reason as required by the Tuberculosis Officers), and as her time will be
allocated between work for both Dispensaries, she will be provided with a central
place for starting equi-distant between the two Dispensaries, that is, at the
Municipal Offices, and can thus form a link between the work of both Dispensaries
and the Public Health Department.