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GENERAL PROVISION OF HEALTH SERVICES IN
THE AREA.
Nursing in the Home.
There are six District Nursing Associations, affiliated to the
Queen's Institute of District Nursing, and the Catholic Nursing
Institute which between them cover the entire area. All are run
upon provident lines, but none receive any grant for general nursing
from the Borough Council. They are the Ranyard Nurses ; Camberwell
and District; South London ; Brixton ; Southwark, Newington
and Walworth ; Norwood and District; and the Catholic Nursing
Institute.
The Lambeth Nursing (Infectious Disease) Scheme was
inaugurated in 1918 as the result of a letter from the then Local
Government Board with the object of providing facilities through
district nursing associations for the domiciliary nursing of cases
of measles, whooping cough, epidemic diarrhoea and enteritis,
and ophthalmia neonotorum. The scheme has been amplified
following a series of regulations made by the Ministry of Health
to include acute primary and acute influenzal pneumonia,
dysentery, malaria, poliomyolitis and encephalitis, puerperal
pyrexia, etc.
During the epidemic of measles a number of cases were visited
from the district nursing associations for otitis media which is a
frequent complication of measles but is not in itself an infectious
disease. Other cases nursed have been of an infectious character
requiring skilled nursing but not actually suffering from one of the
notifiable infectious diseases.
The Lambeth maternity and child welfare scheme with the
approval of the Minister as required by section 251 of the Public
Health (London) Act, 1936, includes provision for some nursing
assistance to children under the age of five years and not attending
a school recognised by the Board of Education, but the general
nursing arrangements had not received the official approval of
the Council apart from that when the Nursing (Infectious Disease)