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14 Summary of Nursing Arrangements, etc.
There were four deaths from Scarlet Fever and
24 from Diphtheria, giving a mortality rate of 0.6
per cent. for the former and 12.9 per cent. for the latter-
As the prevalence of both diseases was at its maximum
at the end of the year and as it seems desirable that
the epidemic of each disease should be discussed
fully as a whole from its commencement to its decline,
special reports will be furnished later.
No other disease was the cause of unusual sickness'
or invalidity during the year.
5. SUMMARY OF NURSING ARRANGEMENTS
HOSPITALS AND OTHER INSTITUTIONS
AVAILABLE FOR THE DISTRICT.
Professional Nursing in the Home.—(a) General—
The District Nursing Association, a voluntary body,
maintains a nurse for the purpose of attending to
cases of non-infectious sickness in the Borough. One
nurse cannot adequately deal with all cases and it
is to be hoped that sufficient financial support will
be forthcoming to enable the Association to employ
a second and, if possible, a third nurse.
(b) For Infectious Diseases■—Two of the three health
visitors employed by the Council undertake as a part
of their duties the nursing of cases of measles, whooping
cough, ophthalmia neonatorum and poliomyelitis, when
nursing is found to be necessary or desirable.
Midwives.—There are eleven midwives practising
in Ealing. All are trained midwives. No midwife
is employed or subsidised by the public health authority