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7
GENERAL PROVISIONS OF HEALTH SERVICES
IN THE AREA.
Nursing in the Home.
The seven district nursing associations in the area are the
Ranyard Nurses, Camberwell and District, South London, Brixton,
Southwark, Newington and Walworth, Norwood and District and
the Catholic Nursing Institute. A flat rate payment of 2s. 2d. a
visit is paid to all cases including tuberculosis requiring skilled
nursing which in the opinion of the Medical Officer of Health can
properly be regarded as coming within the scope of the Lambeth
nursing (infectious disease) scheme or the Lambeth Maternity and
Child Welfare Scheme. The number of visits paid to children under
5 years of age was 3,900 and to persons over that age 2,818.
Welfare Centres
Total individual cases dealt with 20,865 (15,601)
„ sessions held 3,352 (2,486)
„ ante-natal cases 5,884 (3,422)
„ post-natal cases 823 (678)
„ nursing mothers 4,511 (3,527)
,, infants under 1 5,971 (4,588)
„ children 1-5 3,676 (3,546)
Visits paid to A/N cases 9,642 (6,990)
„ „ P/N cases 4,212 (2,762)
„ „ nursing mothers 22,277 (20,176)
„ „ infants under 1 23,174 (18,882)
„ „ children 1-5 39,300 (37,273)
The increase in the population and the unusually high birthrate
led to a general enlargement of the work of the welfare centres
where extra sessions and new clinics were in demand in all districts.
The Moffat and the Brixton Welfare Centres had to surrender their
premises during the year and went out without any home in the
case of the Moffat and an ill-sited inconvenient hall for the Brixton.
The Moffat were forced to share the premises of the Babies' Care
Centre which placed an intolerable strain upon both, but owing to
the devastation in the area and the lack of any building in the
neighbourhood which could be adapted, no other course was open.
Brixton Welfare Centre was in almost as bad a case. Every centre