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" I wish, on behalf of my husband and myself, to
thank Miss Whitlaw and the Matron and staff for the kindness
to me and the baby. The goodness of the two ladies
is really beyond my thanks.
" Wishing the two ladies health and strength to carry
on the wonderful work—"
NURSING ASSISTANCE.
A scheme of home nursing has been in
operation for some years by arrangement with a
voluntary organisation, the Shoreditch and Bethnal
Green Nursing Association. For each visit a charge
of tenpenoe is made to the Council by the Association.
As regards children under the age of five years, the
Ministry of Health have sanctioned expenditure on the
nursing of all sick cases, but grant is only paid by the
Ministry in respect of certain specified conditions, e.g.,
Measles, Whooping Cough, Diarrhoea, Ophthalmia
Neonatorum and Poliomyelitis, which come within the
Council's Maternity and Child Welfare Scheme.