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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 3,813 and to persons over that age 2,393.
Welfare Centres
Total individual cases dealt with 23,377 ( 20,865)
„ sessions held 3,699 ( 3,352)
,, ante-natal cases 5,380 ( 5,884)
„ post-natal cases 1,157 ( 823)
,, nursing mothers 5,391 ( 4,511)
„ infants under 1 7,294 ( 5,971)
,, children 1-5 4,155 ( 3,676)
Visits paid to A/N cases 8,326 ( 9,642)
P/N cases 5,617 ( 4,212)
„ „ nursing mothers 24,766 ( 22,277)
„ ,, infants under 1 29,465 ( 23,174)
children 1-5 38,490 ( 39,300)
The Moffat Welfare Centre spent the entire year housed in the
basement of the Babies' Care Centre premises and the confusion
from this state of affairs was made worse by the increased birth
rate and the extra general work which this entailed. Not until
well into 1948 did the Moffat Centre find premises into which they
could move as a temporary measure until better times arrive and
the housing shortage is not so acute. The rate at which building
was proceeding was so reduced by the frost in the first quarter that
the premises on the ground floor of a block of flats on the County
Council's Tulse Hill estate which were to have been ready for the
Brixton Centre before the end of the year, are not likely now to
be occupied much before the end of 1948, if then.