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The following is an extract from the Annual Report
of the Dagenham District Nursing Association for the
year ended 31st March, 1938:—
"Owing to the New Midwives Act the past year
has brought many changes to the Midwifery world,
but in Dagenham, owing to the close co-operation
existing between the Dagenham Urban District
Council and the Essex County Nursing Association,
no drastic changes have been found necessary.
Dagenham Council, being its own supervising
authority, has appointed its own Midwives, and has
entered into an agreement with the Essex County
Nursing Association allocating to it a district which
will fully occupy what is estimated to be the time of
seven Midwives. The Scheme came into force in
February and so far appears to be working quite
smoothly."
During the year, the York House Nurses attended
at 177 ante-natal clinics, three post-natal clinics and
answered 466 ambulance calls.
(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. It was only necessary for one case of
Pneumonia to be treated at home by these nurses for
the year under review. Experience shows that, normally,
severe cases of Pneumonia stand removal badly.