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PROFESSIONAL NURSING IN THE HOME.
Professional nursing in the home is provided by eight district
nursing associations who are now co-ordinated under the Central
Committee for Hendon Nursing Associations.
These nursing associations perform a most useful function in
meeting the need for sick nursing in the homes of the people and
in addition their activities permit of many cases being nursed at
home who otherwise would have to be admitted to hospital and
also allow of hospitals discharging cases at an earlier date
than would otherwise be possible, thus saving to a considerable
extent the need for additional hospital beds.
The Ministry of Health approved a scheme by which these
nursing associations should be employed under the maternity and
child welfare scheme for the nursing of certain diseases in young
children and for such ante and post natal conditions as the Medical
Officer of Health should desire, a payment being made for these
services.
This scheme is now in operation and is working satisfactorily.
LABORATORY FACILITIES.
These continue as in previous years the existing arrangements
with the University College Hospital having been continued.
These facilities have been largely used by the practitioners in the
area as shown in Table XXIII.
The bacteriological examination of specimens taken by members
of the Public Health Department is, as far as possible, undertaken
at the Isolation Hospital.
LIST OF ADOPTIVE ACTS.
Baths and Washhouses Acts, 1846-1925.
The Infectious Disease (Prevention) Act, 1890.
Public Health Acts (Amendment) Act, 1890.
Parts II., III, and V,