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NURSING.
There are now no special nurses employed by the Borough Council
for the nursing of cases of measles. The Maternity and Child Welfare
scheme provides a home help for rendering assistance during the absence
from her home of a mother, or during her incapacity through illness.
Sick nursing in the district of St. Mary, Newington, is carried out
by the Benson Home Nurses, which home receives a subsidy of £400
from the Newington United Charities. In other parts of the Borough
the Ranyard Nurses do much valuable sick nursing, and one or two
parishes provide their own nurse.
DIPHTHERIA ANTITOXIN.
Diphtheria Antitoxin can be obtained any time at tbe Council's
Reception House, King James Street, Lancaster Street, including Sunday
and all Public Holidays, and also on ordinary week days, during the
hours between 9.0 a.m. and 5.30 p.m., at the Town Hall. This is always
kept in a fresh condition and a sterilised syringe is also lent if necessary
to give the injection.
LABORATORY WORK.
During 1923 there has been a considerable increase in the use of
facilities offered by the bacteriological department for the examination of
throat swabs and sputa; also for the blood examination for typhoid
fever, the numbers amounting to 2,259, as against 1,722 in 1922, a total
increase of 537 specimens. Of these specimens 1,411 were for tubercle
bacilli, and this is an important factor in our fight against consumption,
and an integral part of the London County Council's scheme.
MUNICIPAL NURSERY.
The nursery at 63, Kennington Park Road, continues to do good
work and is much appreciated by the mothers living in the borough.
They go to their daily work with the knowledge that their children left
in our charge will be well looked after.
The staff consists of a matron and a nurse, four probationers, a
cook, house cleaner and a laundrywoman.
The number of attendances of children during the year was 10,120,
making an average daily attendance of about 36.
The charge is eightpence a day for those over nine months, and
tenpence a day for those under that age.