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Willesden 1926
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Willesden]
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Table No. 10. TUBERCULOSIS.
| Age-Periods. | New Cases. | Deaths. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pulmonary. | Non-Pulmonary. | Pulmonary. | Non-Pulmonary. | |||||
| M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | M. | F. | |
| 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 |
| 5 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 10 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 15 | 8 | 15 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 9 | 0 | 3 |
| 20 | 19 | 26 | 3 | 4 | 11 | 12 | 0 | 1 |
| 25 | 29 | 38 | 5 | 2 | 14 | 10 | 2 | 1 |
| 35 | 35 | 20 | 1 | 4 | 21 | 12 | 2 | 1 |
| 45 | 31 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 25 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 55 | 12 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
| 65 and upwards | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 |
| Totals | 145 | 126 | 34 | 34 | 82 | 54 | 12 | 14 |
PUBLIC HEALTH ACT, 1925, SECTION 62.
Removal to hospital of infectious persons suffering from pulmonary tuberculosis.
No action was taken under this section during 1926.
Table No. 11. OPHTHALMIA NEONATORUM.
| No of cases Notified. | Dr. in Attendance at Birth. | Born in Hospital. | Midwife in Attendance at Birth. | Treatment. | Results of Treatment. | Still under treatment. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hospital. | Clinic. | Private Dr. | Home Nurse Attending. | No Defect. | One Eye Permanently Injured. | Both Eyes Permanently Injured. | |||||
| 30* | 20 | 5† | 4 | 6‡ | 8 | 15 | 12 | 27 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
* In 1 case no information was obtainable.
† 1 of these was born in a nursing home.
‡ 1 of these was treated by a private doctor in a nursing home.
SUMMARY OF NURSING ARRANGEMENTS, HOSPITALS AND OTHER INSTITUTIONS
AVAILABLE FOR THE DISTRICT.
Professional Nursing in the Home.
(a) General—
(i.) The Willesden District Council employs one fully trained Hospital Nurse. She visits
in the homes once or twice daily as necessary primarily to nurse grant earning cases
under the Maternity and Child Welfare regulations.
[Grant-earning cases are : Nursing of expectant mothers, maternity nursing, nursing of puerperal
fever, puerperal pyrexia, measles in young children, whooping cough in young children,
epidemic diarrhoea in young children and ophthalmia neonatorum.]
The Nurse is provided on application to the Matron, Municipal Clinic (1), 9,
Willesden Lane, Kilburn, N.W. 6; or to the Matron, Municipal Clinic (2), 381, High
Road, Willesden, N.W. 10. The Council's Nurse acts under the direction of the Medical
Practitioner in attendance upon the case.