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Chelsea 1934

Report of the Medical Officer of Health for the year 1934

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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 80.
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. 20 shows, for the past two years,
the number of home visits paid by the District Nurses, while Table No. 21
shows the conditions which necessitated attendance during the year
1934 :-

TABLE No. 20.

Year.Visits.Cases.
19331,300116
19342,379222
TABLE No. 21.
Nursed by District Nurses During 1934.
Visits.Cases.
Bronchitis14613
Burns282
Chicken Pox
Circumcision24332
Diarrhœa
Eye Trouble535
Ear Trouble42728
Expectant and Nursing Mothers16613
Influenza and Pneumonia (under 5)15811
Influenza and Pneumonia (over 5)25716
Impetigo383
Meningitis and Peritonitis
Measles (under 5)23922
Measles (over 5)14712
Ophthalmia Neonatorum381
Pemphigus Neonatorum
Pemphigus
Poliomyelitis
Post-Vaccination597
Puerperal Fever
Puerperal Pyrexia31
Rickets
Septic sores294
Tonsils and Adenoids6913
Whooping Cough101
Worms10217
Miscellaneous16721
2,379222