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DISTRICT NURSING
The Council has an arrangement with the various Nursing
Associations in the Borough, for a nurse to attend patients
suffering from certain infectious diseases and minor ailments.
8,579 visits were made during the year.
TREATMENT OF SPECIAL DISEASES.
11 persons are receiving treatment for diabetes and one
for pernicious anaemia, at the Council's expense.
PREVENTION OF DIPHTHERIA.
There has been a reduction in the number of attendances
at these Clinics as compared with 1942, when the attendances
reached a record. 3,134 persons attended the Borough Council
Clinics as compared with 4,209 in the previous year, and 1,845
in 1941. The number of children who attended the Clinics
held at the L.C.C. Schools has fallen from 3,063 to 1,698.
At the close of 1942, the Borough Council had five Clinics
in operation, six sessions being held every week. Two of these
were held concurrently with Infant Welfare Clinics, as it was
found to be an encouragement to mothers to have their children
immunised at the same time as they were brought to the Infant
Welfare Clinics. During 1943, three more Clinics were opened
on Infant Welfare Centre premises, and at the end of the year
there were eight separate Clinics for the prevention of Diphtheria
in operation throughout the Borough, a weekly session
being held at each.
In 1944, It was found necessary to close all but two of these
Clinics, and the only two in operation in 1944 are at the
Municipal Buildings, Fairfield Street—Wednesdays, 2-3.30 p.m.,
and Balham Infant Welfare Centre, 91 Bedford Hill—Fridays,
2-3.30 p.m.
The Immunising Agent.
The solution now used for routine immunisation is alum
precipitated toxoid (A.P.T.) and two injections of ½ c.c. each
are giver, at monthly intervals. For persons over the age of
15, two injections, each of 1 c.c., of toxoid ante-toxin floccules
(T.A.F.) are given.