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All these Nursing Associations will nurse cases of measles,
whooping-cough, ophthalmia neonatorum and tuberculosis,
but they do not, and it is not desirable that they should,
provide nursing assistance for cases of scarlet fever, diphtheria
or enteric fever. Nursing assistance is given for a
limited number of cases of acute primary and acute influenzal
pneumonia.
The Borough Council have entered into agreements with
all these Nursing Associations, whereby nursing assistance
in necessitous cases is paid for by the Borough Council for
patients requiring such assistance if suffering from measles
or ophthalmia neonatorum. The rates paid are as follows :
Is. Od. per visit; two or more cases in one home, 6d. per
case, per visit.
There is an urgent necessity for the extension of these
arrangements for the nursing of pneumonia, and, at the time
this report is being prepared, negotiations are in progress
with the various Nursing Associations to enable the Council
(as is done by many other Boroughs in London) to provide
a skilled nursing service for persons suffering from the pneumonias.
Midwives. Through the courtesy of Sir William Hamer, the
Comity Medical Officer of Health, 1 have been able to ascertain
that 47 midwives gave notice during the year of their
intention to practise as midwives in the Borough of Woolwich.
The Council do not employ or subsidise practising midwives.