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Professional Nursing in the Home.
(a) General. The Hampstead District Nursing Association, 25,
Heath Hurst Road, and the Kilburn and West Hampstead District
Nursing Association, 20, Dennington Park Road. Both Associations
provide skilled nurses for the sick poor. The Borough Council
subsidises the work of the Associations.
(b) For Infectious Diseases. By arrangements made between the
two Nursing Associations and the Borough Council, whereby the
Council contribute towards the expenses of the Associations, nurses are
available for cases of Measles, Whooping Cough, Epidemic Diarrhoea,
Ophthalmia Neonatorum, Acute Primary or Acute Influenzal
Pneumonia, Influenza, Malaria, Dysentery or Trench Fever. During
1927, 40 cases were nursed under this arrangement by the Kilburn and
West Hampstead District Nursing Association, and 13 by the Hampstead
District Nursing Association.
(c) For Maternity Cases. By agreements between the two Nursing
Associations and the Borough Council, skilled maternity nursing can be
obtained for cases in the Borough. Both Associations have fully
trained nurses appointed to attend maternity cases, and any woman can
have a fully trained nurse attend her together with her own doctor.
A fee is charged the patient, which is in accordance with her means,
and may be nothing in very poor cases. The Council make a grant
of £100 to the Kilburn and West Hampstead District Nursing
Association towards the expenses of their Maternity Nurses, and in
respect of the other Association pay a sum of £2 2s. Od. per maternity
case nursed, irrespective of the number of cases involved. During
1927, 59 cases were nursed by the former Association and 16 by the
latter.
Midwives.
I am informed by the London County Council that the total
number of midwives practising in Hampstead is 32. Of this number,
21 are on the staff of nursing homes and hospitals.
Arrangements have been made by the Borough Council with both
Nursing Associations for the provision of properly skilled and
registered midwives. The Borough Council makes a grant of £100
to the Kilburn and West Hampstead Association, and in respect of the
other Association pay a sum of £2 2s. Od. per midwifery case nursed.
The fees charged the patient have been carefully considered in
reference to the midwives' fees prevailing in the district, and have been
graduated so as not to undercut the practising midwives. During 1927,
106 cases were attended by the Midwives of the Kilburn and West
Hampstead District Nursing Association, and 14 by the Hampstead
District Nursing Association.