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Woolwich 1922

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Woolwich]

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SECTION V.—SUMMARY (for reference) of Nursing
Arrangements, Hospitals, and other Institutions
available for the District (including
Report on Maternity and Child Welfare Work).
In tabular form is set out a summary of the Nursing arrangements,
Hospitals, and other Institutions available for the
district:
Professional Nursing in the Home. There are four nursing
institutions in the district, as follows:—
The Woolwich and Plumstead Nursing Association, 22
Nightingale Place, Woolwich, S.E. 18.
The Eltham District Nursing Association,
(Nurse) Miss M. Alexander, The Hostel, Eltham.
St. Luke's Parish, Eltham,
(Nurse) Miss Bloomfield, 9 Maudslay Road, Eltham.
Silvertown and North Woolwich District Nursing Association,
Saville Road, Silvertown, E. 16.
The Woolwich and Plumstead Nursing Association deals
with cases in Woolwich and Plumstead; the Eltham Nursing
Association deals with cases in that part of Eltham which
lies south of the Blackheath-Bexley Heath railway line;
St. Luke's Parish Nursing Association deals with cases in
that part of Eltham lying to the east of Well Hall Road and
north of the above-mentioned railway line. There are no
arrangements for nursing in that part of Eltham west of
Well Hall Road and north of the railway line.
All these Nursing Associations will nurse cases of certain
infectious diseases, viz., measles, whooping cough, ophthalmia
neonatorum and tuberculosis. They will not, however,