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Chelsea 1933

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.
19321,803171
19331,300116
TABLE No. 20.
Nursed by District Nurses During 1933.
Visits.Cases.
Bronchitis776
Burns
Chicken Pox
Circumcision9616
Diarrhœa
Eye Trouble1197
Ear Trouble23716
Expectant and Nursing Mothers1019
Influenza and Pneumonia (under 5)585
Influenza and Pneumonia (over 5)14010
Impetigo
Meningitis and Peritonitis21
Measles (under 5)151
Measles (over 5)
Ophthalmia Neonatorum61
Pemphigus Neonatorum592
Pemphigus892
Poliomyelitis
Puerperal Fever121
Puerperal Pyrexia41
Rickets
Septic sores605
Tonsils and Adenoids338
Whooping Cough91
Worms8111
Miscellaneous10213
1,300116