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As in previous years the various voluntary services have afforded
great help to the nurses and requests are always met promptly. Many
lonely old people are referred to the voluntary services for social visits.
With the increasing calls on the service the question of transport is
important and from observation it seems that a good deal of the nurses'
time is spent getting from visit to visit. In bad weather the time required
is longer and the amount of actual work can take less time than is used
for the journey on foot or cycle. Much more work could be undertaken
by the existing staff if better transport facilities were available.
The following tables show (a) the number of cases attended and the
number of visits paid by home nurses and (b) an analysis of treatments
given under three broad headings. It is significant that almost half the
new cases attended during the year required injections of one kind oj
another.