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Clerks:
Britter, A. Prescott, H. T.
Collyer, H. M. Smith, H. S.
†Edwards, Mrs. E. †Stephenson, Miss D.
Pike, L. Taylor, S. G.
Mortuary Keeper:
F. Leason.
The Medical Officer of Health* is Administrative Tuberculosis
Officer and Executive Officer under the Council's Maternity and
Child Welfare Scheme.
*Salary contributions made under Public Health Acts.
†alary contributions made by Exchequer Grants.
vi. Professional Nursing in the Home. At the end of the
year there were four nursing associations in the district, as
follows:—
The Woolwich and Plum stead 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 Eltham and District Nursing Association became defunct
on the 31st December, 1925, and at the present time
there are no nursing arrangements in the larger part of Eltham.
The areas in which these associations work are sufficiently
well-defined by their names. These associations 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 is under the supervision of a medical man and
the illness is not infectious. However, they will nurse cases
of measles, whooping cough, ophthalmia neonatorum, tuberculosis,
anterior poliomyelitis and puerperal fever. 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