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Under the new Midwives Act a complete salaried
service of midwives must be provided throughout the
country, and the Dagenham District Nursing Association
is to assist the Council in carrying out their
obligations under the Act.
As the work shows promise of increasing still
more in the future, the Committee felt that the present
Home in Frizlands Lane would be quite inadequate for
the needs of the district, and asked the Essex County
Nursing Association to consider the extension to
York House. A Sub-Committee has therefore been
appointed to consider the matter.
The Committee have agreed to join in the
Greater London Provident Scheme for District
Nursing, which it is hoped will greatly benefit district
nursing throughout the Greater London area. The
scheme is intended to organise district nursing very
much on the lines of the hospital contributory scheme,
enabling patients by payment of a small weekly
sum to obtain general district nursing free of charge
should occasion arise."
(b) Nursing of Cases of Infectious Diseases.
Cases of notifiable infectious disease are normally
removed to the Isolation Hospital; certain cases,
however, of non-notifiable infections are nursed by
special nurses employed by the Nursing Association.
An arrangement has been made whereby nurses on
the staff of the Dagenham District Nursing Association
are available for attending cases of Pneumonia in their
own homes. This has already proved its worth and the
records show that such cases as a whole do well. In
many cases the removal of an Acute Pneumonia case is
followed by untoward happenings.