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SECTION 25 - HOME NURSING
The Metropolitan District Nursing Association continued to provide home nursing services in
the City. With the development of the family doctor group practice attachment scheme there has
been an appreciable increase in the number of patients attended.
1971 1972
Patients attended in their homes 77 67
Patients attended in General Practioners
Surgery NIL 75
Patients attended elsewhere 4 8
Total patients attended 81 150
Number of nursing treatments given 2443 4011
Number of patients being attended at
the end of the year 24 71
SECTION 26 - VACCINATION AND IMMUNISATION
In accordance with the then Ministry of Health instructions that smallpox vaccine should be
distributed to medical practitioners by the Local Authority in whose area they practise, arrangements
continue for the vaccine to be distributed to City doctors. During 1972, 7200 (6063) doses
have been issued to City medical practitioners and doctors at St. Bartholomew's Hospital, the
medical department of Unilever and various City business houses.
Poliomyelitis vaccine is also issued at the request of St. Bartholomew's Hospital, Unilever
Limited and City medical practitioners. In all 4170 (3200) doses were issued. 77 (76) adults
(including Corporation Staff) were vaccinated by Corporation medical staff.
(See other sections for vaccinations and immunisations of school children and
children under five years of age).
SECTION 27 - AMBULANCE SERVICE
The Greater London Council are responsible for the ambulance service in the Greater London
area.
SECTION 28 - PREVENTION OF ILLNESS, CARE AND AFTERCARE
City of London Chest Clinic
Dr. Neville C. Oswald, the Chest Physician, has reported as follows:-
"Thirteen City Residents with Pulmonary Tuberculosis are under regular observation and
treatment, eight of whom attended for the first time in 1972. Ten of the thirteen gave the Salvation
Army Hostel as their address.
Of the forty eight Residents of the Salvation Army Hostel who attended the Mass X-Ray
Unit, three were referred to the Chest Clinic, but none reported to the Clinic, nor could they be
traced.
During 1972, eighteen City Workers were notified as having infectious Tuberculosis. This
resulted in eighty-eight contacts being examined at the Chest Clinic, and a further one hundred
and sixty-five were X-Rayed by the Mass X-Ray Unit. One of these contacts was found to have
active Pulmonary Tuberculosis.
Sixteen City Residents attend theChest Clinicfor non-tuberculous chest disease. In addition,
approximately three hundred visits were made to the Clinic by City Workers."
Special Hostels for Tuberculous Men
1971 1972
Men resident during the year 4 5
Loan of Nursing Aids and Aids for handicapped
1971 1972
Supplied by Health Department 67 145
Supplied by British Red Cross Society - 2 NIL
City Branch
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