[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council] page 69

London County Council 1958

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for London County Council]

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Table: HOME NURSING SERVICE Details of the work done by the 26 voluntary grant-aided district nursing associations who acted as agents for the Council are given below: Table (i)—Staff

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HOME NURSING SERVICE Details of the work done by the 26 voluntary grant-aided district nursing associations who acted as agents for the Council are given below: Table (i)—Staff

	1949	1954	1955	1956	1957	1958
Total number of nurses employed at end of year	410	558	572	584	614	540
Full time equivalent of nurses employed	361	508	512	538	567	496
Number of trained district nurses	Not	Not	321	327	389	468
Number of state enrolled assistant nurses	recorded	recorded	36	35	30	31
Number of male nurses	recorded	recorded	49	38	40	41

Table: Table (ii)—Types of case nursed and visits paid

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Table (ii)—Types of case nursed and visits paid

Type of case	Number of patients nursed	Percentage of total	Average number of visits to each patient	Total visits
Medical	Number of patients nursed	Percentage of total	Average number of visits to each patient	Total visits	52,222	84.1	30	1,563,599
Surgical	5,937	9.6	36	211,261
Infectious diseases	142	0.2	6	907
Tuberculous	1,395	2.2	51	71,012
Maternal complications	862	1.4	8	6,710
Others	1,558	2.5	26	40,064
	62,116	100.0	30	1,893,553

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The total visits for 1957 and 1956 were 1,991,621 and 1,962,733 respectively.

Table: Table (iii)—Visits for general treatment and for injections

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Table (iii)—Visits for general treatment and for injections

Visits for	At patients' homes	Elsewhere (e.g.,Nurses' Homes)	Percentage of total visits
Injections only	856,840	33,923	47
Injections plus other treatment	111,555	259	6
Other treatment only	890,540	436	47
	1,858,935	34,618	100

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During 1958 visits for injections only fell by 3% compared with 1957 and for other
treatments rose correspondingly.

Table: Table (iv)—Long term cases [i.e., those visited more than 24 times during the year)

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Table (iv)—Long term cases [i.e., those visited more than 24 times during the year)

Number	Percentage of total patients nursed
11,769	18.9

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Percentage of long term cases shows a reduction from 21.7 for 1957.

Table: Table (v)—Age distribution of patients

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Table (v)—Age distribution of patients

Age	Number of patients	Percentage of total
0-5 years	2,576	4
5-64 years	27,164	44
65 years and over	32,394	52
	62,116	100

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Percentage of aged rose slightly compared with 1957.
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London County Council 1958

Table: HOME NURSING SERVICE Details of the work done by the 26 voluntary grant-aided district nursing associations who acted as agents for the Council are given below: Table (i)—Staff

Table: Table (ii)—Types of case nursed and visits paid

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Table: Table (iii)—Visits for general treatment and for injections

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Table: Table (iv)—Long term cases [i.e., those visited more than 24 times during the year)

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Table: Table (v)—Age distribution of patients

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