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PNEUMONIA, ETC., REGULATIONS, 1919.
The following notifications under this Order were received by the end of
1920:—
Pneumonia, 118 cases—primary, 96; after influenza, 22.
Malaria, nine cases, all contracted abroad in the first instance.
Dysentery, no cases.
Trench Fever, no cases.
In a letter of the 28th March, 1919, from the Joint Hospital Board, it was
announced:—
"That the Board, at their meeting yesterday, decided to set apart one of
the blocks at their hospital for the reception of cases of malaria, dysentery,
trench fever, and such cases of pneumonia as are contemplated
on page 5 of the memorandum of the Local Government Board, dated
January, 1919, on the understanding that each case is recommended
by the Medical Officer of Health of one of the constituent districts,"
of Enfield and Edmonton.
DISTRICT NURSING
This was again considered, but not settled in January.
In July, the Public Health Committee appointed a sub-committee to consider
the matter with a view of selecting one of two offers from the Queen
Victoria Jubilee Nurses Institute and Bury House Nursing Institute.
In October, I mentioned that the nine following diseases could be dealt
with by the District Nurse, when the Council had secured her services:—
Measles Pneumonia Diarrhoea
Whooping Cough Ophthalmia Neonatorum Erysipelas
Influenza Puerperal Fever Polio-myelitis.
I again brought up the subject in November, when the Public Health
Committee recommended that negotiations be entered into with the Bury House
Nursing Institution for the services of one fully trained nurse to cases selected
by the Medical Officer of Health upon the following terms:—retaining fee of
£20 with the payment of is. for each of the first three visits and 6d. for each