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Home Nursing Arrangements.
Following upon negotiations, revised agreements were entered into
with the three following Nursing Associations:—
(a) East London Nursing Society;
(b) The Nursing Sisters of St. John the Divine;
(c) St. John's (Isle of Dogs) Nursing Association.
The agreements with the East London Nursing Society and the
Nursing Sisters of St. John the Divine provided for the nursing of the
following cases:—
(a) Measles, German Measles, Whooping Cough, Zymotic
Enteritis (epidemic Diarrhoea), when occurring in children
under the age of 10 years;
(b) Nursing during pregnancy; Puerperal Fever, Pyrexia and
other complications where the Midwife has been advised to
discontinue attendance; Ophthalmia Neonatorum;
(c) Pneumonia, Influenza, Malaria, Dysentery, Poliomyelitis,
Encephalitis Lethargica;
(d) Pemphigus, Conjunctivitis, etc., in children under the
age of 5 years.
The agreement with the St. John's (Isle of Dogs) Nursing Association
provided for the nursing of cases (a), (c) and (d), together with Ophthalmia
Neonatorum.
During the negotiations with the Nursing Associations it was apparent
that much nursing work for children under 5 years of age had been carried
out for which the nursing societies had not claimed payment.
Agreements were entered into from 1st January, 1938, and the
Council agreed to pay the following block grants for the calendar year
1938, such grants to be reviewed, in the light of the experience gained,
at the end of the year:—
East London Nursing Society £160
Nursing Sisters of St. John the Divine £40
St. John's (Isle of Dogs) Nursing Association £10
At the end of the year the work of the three Nursing Associations was
reviewed and for the calendar year 1939 the block grants were revised
as follows:—
East London Nursing Society £140
Nursing Sisters of St. John the Divine £50
St. John's (Isle of Dogs) Nursing Association £12