Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1933
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Arrangements are also in operation for the home nursing of cases of
tuberculosis. This is carried out by the Tuberculosis Nurse to the
Dispensary. Further details will be found on page 82.
The foregoing arrangement whereby the trained nurses of the Chelsea,
Pimlico and Belgravia District Nursing Association undertake, when
requested by the Medical Officer of Health, the home nursing of measles,
German measles, whooping cough, ophthalmia, enteritis and any other
disease for which nursing assistance is required, continues to give satisfaction.
Medical practitioners in the Borough greatly appreciate the
assistance they thus receive. No occasion has arisen where a request
for nursing assistance has not been met promptly, even in times of
pressure. The following Table No. 19 shows, for the past two years,
the number of home visits paid by the District Nurses, while Table No. 20
shows the conditions which necessitated attendance during the year
1933:-
TABLE No. 19.
Year. Visits. | Cases. | |
---|---|---|
1932 | 1,803 | 171 |
1933 | 1,300 | 116 |
TABLE No. 20. | ||
Nursed by District Nurses During 1933. | ||
Visits. | Cases. | |
Bronchitis | 77 | 6 |
Burns | — | — |
Chicken Pox | — | — |
Circumcision | 96 | 16 |
Diarrhœa | — | — |
Eye Trouble | 119 | 7 |
Ear Trouble | 237 | 16 |
Expectant and Nursing Mothers | 101 | 9 |
Influenza and Pneumonia (under 5) | 58 | 5 |
Influenza and Pneumonia (over 5) | 140 | 10 |
Impetigo | — | — |
Meningitis and Peritonitis | 2 | 1 |
Measles (under 5) | 15 | 1 |
Measles (over 5) | — | — |
Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 6 | 1 |
Pemphigus Neonatorum | 59 | 2 |
Pemphigus | 89 | 2 |
Poliomyelitis | — | — |
Puerperal Fever | 12 | 1 |
Puerperal Pyrexia | 4 | 1 |
Rickets | — | — |
Septic sores | 60 | 5 |
Tonsils and Adenoids | 33 | 8 |
Whooping Cough | 9 | 1 |
Worms | 81 | 11 |
Miscellaneous | 102 | 13 |
1,300 | 116 |