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GENERAL PROVISION OF HEALTH SERVICES
FOR THE BOROUGH.
NURSING IN THE HOME.
(1) General Diseases.—The Greater Ealing Nursing Association
through its five nurses performs admirable work in quite an unostentatious
manner in supplying nursing assistance to patients at their
own homes. The Northolt Nursing Association provides a nurse
for the Northolt ward. The nurses of both these Associations
co-operate in every possible way with the Maternity and Child
Welfare and School Medical Services. The Town Council makes a
grant towards each Association for nursing services rendered in
connection with children under five years of age and expectant
mothers. The nurses also assist at the Health Centres in weighing
the children and in preparing them for examination by the medical
officers. During the year the nurses made 16,971 visits and had
under their care 775 patients. In connection with Maternity and
Child Welfare Service the nurses made 1,030 visits to mothers
and children.
(2) Infectious Diseases.—The nurses of the two Nursing
Associations give nursing assistance when required for children
under five years of age who are suffering from ophthalmia neonatorum,
measles, whooping cough, poliomyelitis, and diarrhoea.
They also, when called upon to do so, attend cases of puerperal
sepsis or puerperal pyrexia when the patient is not removed to an
institution and is under the care of a doctor.
ADMINISTRATION OF MIDWIVES ACTS, 1902 to 1926.
By virtue of an Order under Section 62 of the Local Government
Act, 1929, the Town Council is the local supervising authority
under the Midwives Acts.
During the year 43 midwives notified their intention to practise
within the Borough, this number including seven midwives residing
outside the district. Of the 36 midwives resident in Ealing, 16
were engaged in private practice, 13 were engaged in nursing
homes and seven were engaged at the Chiswick and Ealing Maternity
Hospital. All of the midwives practising in the Borough possess
the certificate of the Central Midwives Board.