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iii) For infectious diseases, e.g., measles, etc.—Arrangements
were approved early in 1925 for the home nursing of cases of
measles, whooping cough, ophthalmia neonatorum, puerperal
fever, epidemic diarrhoea, and infantile paralysis by the Croydon
Nursing Service, at a fixed charge to the Corporation of 1s. 4d. per
visit, where the case is referred by the Medical Officer of Health on
account of necessitous conditions and inadequate home attention,
and where circumstances prevent removal to a hospital.
The health visitors systematically visit the homes and give
advice to parents as to the nursing and general care of such
children.
One health visitor is engaged in the home nursing of bedridden
tuberculous patients.
B.—Midwives.
No practising midwives are employed or subsidised by the
local authority.
58 midwives practised in the Borough in 1924.