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SECTION II.—PROVISION OF HEALTH
SERVICES IN THE BOROUGH.
PUBLIC HEALTH OFFICERS OF THE BOROUGH COUNCIL.
The names and qualifications of members of the staff of the Public
Health Department at 31st December, 1937, are tabulated on pages 5-7,
in the form required by the Ministry of Health.
NURSING ARRANGEMENTS.
(a.) General Nursing in the Home.—This is carried out by the
Chelsea, Pimlico and Belgravia District Nursing Association, located
at 10, Sydney Street, Chelsea. The Borough Council makes an annual
grant to the Association, in addition to a payment of 1s. 6d. per visit.
For this remuneration the Association has undertaken the nursing of
all cases of illness occurring in expectant and nursing mothers and also,
on the requisition of the Medical Officer of Health, the nursing of all
children in the Borough under five years of age suffering from any illness.
Patients are expected to make payment to the Association according
to their means, but no patient, on account of inability to do so, is refused
the services of a nurse. The only stipulations are that the patient must
be under medical supervision, require nursing and be unable to pay the
fees of a private nursing institution.
Two members of the Public Health Committee of the Borough Council
are members of the Council of the Association.
The Borough Council made a financial grant of £50 to the Association
for the year commencing 1st April, 1937. The total fees paid by the
Council for nurses' visits during the year amounted to £143 1s. Od.
(In October, 1937, the Borough Council reconsidered the existing
arrangements in respect of Home Nursing in the Borough and approved
that, as from the 1st January, 1938, a grant at the rate of £250 per
annum be made to the Chelsea, Pimlico and Belgravia District Nursing
Association for nursing services undertaken on behalf of the Council in
place of the present annual grant of £50 plus payments for nurses' visits;
the position to be reviewed in the event of the number of nurses' visits
exceeding 3,000 in any year.)
Details of the work undertaken by the Association on behalf of the
Borough Council are shown in Table No. 20 by the number of home visits
for the past two years and by Table No. 21 the conditions which
necessitated attendance during the vear 1937:—