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SECTION V.—SUMMARY (forreference) 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 below a summary of the nursing
arrangements, hospitals and other institutions available for
the district:—
Professional Nursing in the Home. There are four Nursing
Associations in the district, as follows:—
The Woolwich and Plumstead Nursing Association, 22,
Nightingale Place, Woolwich, S.E.18.
The Silvertown and North Woolwich District Nursing
Association, Saville Road, Silvertown, E.16.
The Eltham District Nursing Association.
(Nurse), Miss Melling, The Ferns, Eltham Hill.
St. Luke's Parish, Eltham.
(Nurse), Miss Trewin, 172, Well Hall Road, Eltham.
The areas in which these Nursing Associations work are
sufficiently well-defined by their names. The Woolwich and
Plumstead District Nursing Association, in addition to doing
general nursing in the district, provides nurses for the London
County Council School Clinics and for the Garrison. When
an allowance is made for this, it is estimated that the whole
time of eight to nine nurses is devoted to general nursing in the
district, an increase of one compared with the previous year.
It is well to explain here that the nurses give their services
free, in all cases of sickness in the district, at the request of
doctors or friends of the patients provided that the patient