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GENERAL PROVISION OF HEALTH SERVICES.
NURSING IN THE HOME.
1. General Diseases.—The nursing of medical and surgical
patients in their own homes in the Borough is carried out by
the Greater Ealing Nursing Association and the Northolt Nursing
Association, the latter dealing, as its name implies, with the Northolt
Ward only. Altogether 6 nurses are employed in carrying out this
work.
The Town Council makes a contribution towards the funds
of these associations and in return the nurses render certain nursing
services in connexion with children under 5 years of age and with
expectant and nursing mothers, and also assist at the Health
Centres in weighing the children and preparing them for examination
by the medical officers.
2. Infectious Diseases.—The nurses of the two Nursing
Associations give nursing assistance, when required, to children
under five years of age who are suffering from measles, whooping
cough, poliomyelitis, diarrhoea or ophthalmia neonatorum.
They also, at the request of the doctor in attendance, visit cases
of puerperal fever or puerperal pyrexia when such are nursed at
home.
The nurses work whole¬heartedly in co¬operation with the
staff of the Maternity and Child Welfare and School Medical
Departments and utilize the Health Centres as places to which
requests for their services are transmitted by both doctors and
patients.