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Chelsea 1944
Annual report of the Medical Officer of Health for Chelsea, 1944
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TABLE No. 21.
N ursed by D istrict N urses
| 1939 | 1940 | 1941 | 1942 | 1943 | 1944 | 1945 | 1946 | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Visits | Cases | Visits | Cases | Visits | Cases | Visits | Cases | Visits | Cases | Visits | Cases | Visits | Cases | Visits | Cases | |
| Bronchitis | 159 | 18 | 67 | 8 | 133 | 15 | 138 | 10 | 179 | 15 | 112 | 11 | 73 | 12 | 128 | 11 |
| Burns | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 12 | 1 | 44 | 1 |
| Chicken Pox | 11 | 1 | 18 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 5 | 1 | 2 | 1 | - | - | - | - |
| Circumcision | 104 | 13 | 58 | 7 | 29 | 4 | 36 | 4 | 86 | 8 | 140 | 17 | 161 | 17 | 342 | 36 |
| Diarrhœa | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Eye Trouble | 106 | 7 | 202 | 14 | 234 | 10 | 131 | 9 | 107 | 8 | 65 | 6 | 236 | 9 | 272 | 12 |
| Ear Trouble | 98 | 6 | 13 | 1 | 11 | 2 | 28 | 5 | 32 | 3 | 155 | 4 | 117 | 9 | 79 | 12 |
| Expectant and Nursing Mothers | 144 | 11 | 122 | 12 | 242 | 22 | 300 | 30 | 108 | 14 | 69 | 7 | 133 | 15 | 60 | 4 |
| Pneumonia (under 5) | 40 | 3 | 93 | 4 | 78 | 5 | 22 | 2 | 38 | 3 | 25 | 2 | - | - | 124 | 10 |
| Pneumonia (over 5) | 131 | 2 | 77 | 3 | 109 | 4 | 33 | 3 | 12 | 1 | 42 | 2 | -- | - | 17 | 1 |
| Impetigo | - | - | 119 | 4 | 38 | 5 | - | - | 5 | 1 | - | - | 8 | 3 | 10 | 2 |
| Meningitis and Peritonitis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Measles (under 5) | - | - | 2 | 1 | 29 | 3 | 21 | 4 | 61 | 10 | 33 | 3 | 181 | 30 | 83 | 13 |
| Measles (over 5) | - | - | 10 | 3 | - | - | 3 | 1 | 83 | 9 | - | - | 73 | 10 | 3 | 1 |
| Ophthalmia Neonatorum | 61 | 3 | 82 | 2 | 26 | 2 | - | - | - | - | 96 | 1 | 98 | 3 | 16 | 1 |
| Pemphigus Neonatorum | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 25 | 1 | - | - | -34 | 2 | - | - |
| Pemphigus | - | 8 | 4 | 16 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Poliomyelitis | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Post-Vaccination | 303 | 54 | 149 | 31 | 143 | 20 | 270 | 48 | 243 | 39 | 491 | 59 | 98 | 19 | - | - |
| Puerperal Fever | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| Puerperal Pyrexia | - | - | 24 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
| -- | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 87 | 3 | 91 | 4 | |
| Septic sores | 33 | 7 | 47 | 4 | 166 | 8 | 76 | 12 | 104 | 14 | 65 | 8 | 13 | 2 | 42 | 6 |
| Tonsils and Adenoids | 23 | 4 | - | - | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 1 | - | - | - | - | 19 | 2 |
| Whooping Cough | 137 | 7 | - | - | 53 | 3 | 28 | 2 | 21 | 2 | - | - | 23 | 2 | 83 | 5 |
| Worms | 44 | 8 | 65 | 12 | - | - | 39 | 8 | 47 | 9 | 13 | 4 | 30 | 6 | 96 | 18 |
| Miscellaneous | 97 | 13 | 167 | 21 | 163 | 29 | 189 | 21 | 135 | 19 | 21 | 6 | 55 | 18 | 94 | 25 |
| 1498 | 158 | 1404 | 135 | 1483 | 135 | 1319 | 167 | 1305 | 160 | 1329 | 132 | 1432 | 161 | 1605 | 164 | |
(b) Nursing of Infectious Disease Cases.—In the case of all
patients suffering from notifiable infectious disease, it is the practice of
the Department to advocate admission to an appropriate hospital for
isolation and treatment.
Under the Borough Council's Maternity and Child Welfare Scheme,
arrangements have been made with the Chelsea District Nursing Association
for the nursing of selected cases of infectious disease. In this category
are included ophthalmia neonatorum, pneumonia, measles and German
measles, whooping cough, epidemic diarrhoea, poliomyelitis, puerperal
fever and puerperal pyrexia.
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 78.
MATERNITY NURSES AND MIDWIVES.
(From 1st January, 1938, the provisions of the Midwives' Act, 1930,
came into operation).