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4.—Nursing in the Home.
(a) General and (b) For Infectious Diseases. The Hampstead
District Nursing Association, 3, Pond Street, and the
Kilburn and West Hampstead District Nursing Association,
20, Dennington Park Road, provide skilled nurses
for the sick poor.
The P.orough Council arranges with these Associations for them to
undertake, in addition to the nursing of cases of infectious disease and
maternity and child welfare cases, the responsibility of providing
facilities for the nursing of the certain other illnesses, etc.
The following is a complete list of the ailments so dealt with
Maternity and Child Welfare:
Complications of Pregnancy (ante- and post-natal).
Certain Notifiable Infectious Diseases, viz.:—
Ophthalmia Neonatorum, Polio-Myelitis, Measles.
Certain other non-notifiable Infectious Diseases, viz.:—
Whooping Cough, Chicken-pox, Zymotic Enteritis,
Pemphigus Neonatorum.
Minor ailments.
Public Health:
All notifiable infectious diseases not included in Maternity and
Child Welfare Scheme.
Certain other non-notifiable infectious diseases, viz.:—
Pneumonia, Influenza, and Bronchitis.
The Borough Council remunerates the local Nursing Associations
by paying to them block grants as follows:-
Maternity and Child Welfare work—Kilburn £80}
Hampstead £30}
Public Health work —Kilburn £70}
Hampstead £40}
£110.}
£110.}
£220
i.e., Hampstead District Nursing Association to receive a total
block grant in respect of these services of £70 per annum, and
Kilburn District Nursing Association to receive a total blockgrant
in respect of these services of £150 per annum,