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Shoreditch 1938
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Shoreditch]
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NURSING IN THE HOME
The Shoreditch and Bethnal Green District Nursing Association undertakes
home nursing in the Borough and has an agreement with the Borough Council
under which the following types of cases are nursed under medical direction in
consideration of a payment of Is. 4d. per visit(i) cases referred by the Medical
Officer of Health, (ii) children under 5 years of age (the cost of these cases being
chargeable to the M. & C. W. Committee), (iii) cases of notifiable diseases.
Below is a list of cases nursed under this agreement during the year 1938:—
In addition to the cases referred to in the table, the District Nurses paid a
number of visits to otorrhoea cases. These cases are referred to in another section of
this Report (see page 97).
| Under 5 years | Over 5 years | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disease | Cases | Visits | Disease | Cases | Visits |
| Abscess | 2 | 20 | Abdominal pain | 1 | 5 |
| Blepharitis | 1 | 13 | Abortion | 2 | 21 |
| Boil on neck | 1 | 1 | Ante-natal conditions | 2 | 26 |
| Bronchitis | 16 | 185 | Breast abscess | 1 | 15 |
| Chest | 5 | 45 | Bronchitis and pneumonia | 1 | 75 |
| Constipation | 1 | 3 | Chest | 2 | 11 |
| Conjunctivitis | 2 | 30 | Congestion of lung | 2 | 21 |
| Diarrhoea | 1 | 12 | Cough | 2 | 18 |
| Discharging eye | 10 | 145 | ? Diphtheria | 1 | 1 |
| Enteritis | 1 | 7 | Enlarged breasts | 2 | 15 |
| Impetigo | 3 | 37 | Gestation | 1 | 4 |
| Intestinal | 4 | 11 | Influenza | 5 | 29 |
| Measles | 10 | 137 | Intestinal | 1 | 1 |
| Nasal discharge | 1 | 65 | Mastitis | 2 | 31 |
| Neo-natal condition | 11 | 159 | Measles | 1 | 18 |
| Pneumonia | 9 | 149 | Miscarriage | 7 | 110 |
| Pyrexia | 4 | 26 | Parturition | 3 | 29 |
| Rheumatism | 1 | 4 | Phlebitis | 1 | 32 |
| Septic spots | 3 | 34 | Pneumonia | 10 | 180 |
| ? Scarlet fever | 1 | 2 | Post-natal conditions | 7 | 159 |
| Stomatitis | 6 | 55 | Sore throat | 1 | 7 |
| Squint | 2 | 19 | Threadworms | 1 | 8 |
| Strabismus | 1 | 5 | Tuberculosis | 13 | 402 |
| Threadworms | 14 | 125 | Uterine | 2 | 42 |
| Tonsils and adenoids | 33 | 130 | Wax in ear | 1 | 5 |
| Tuberculosis contact | 1 | 28 | |||
| Tonsillitis | 1 | 17 | |||
| Ulcer of mouth | 3 | 36 | |||
| Urticaria | 1 | 12 | |||
| Whooping cough | 1 | 15 | |||
| Totals | 150 | 1,527 | Totals | 72 | 1,265 |