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CLERKS:
Britter, A.
Collyer, H. M.
‡Edwards, Mrs. E.
Pike, L.
Prescott, H. T.
Smith, H. S.
‡ Stephenson, Miss D.
Taylor, S. Or.
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.
‡ Salary contributions made by Exchequer Grants.
vi. Professional Nursing in the Home. Practically all
professional nursing in the home is carried out by one or
other of the local Nursing Associations which serve various
parts of the Borough. All of them insist that the patient
should be under the care of a medical practitioner, and in
ordinary circumstances only nurse non-infectious cases.
However, on the recommendation of the Medical Officer of
Health, they will nurse cases of Measles, Whooping Cough,
Ophthalmia Neonatorum, Tuberculosis, Anterior Poliomyelitis,
Puerperal Fever, and Puerperal Pyrexia.
During the year changes in these services took place so
far as Eltham was concerned. The Eltham and District
Nursing Association became defunct on the 31st December,
1925, and it became necessary to re-organise St. Luke's
Nursing Association on provident lines. For some months
there were no nursing arrangements in the greater part of
Eltham, but the Eltham Provident Nursing Association, as
it is now described, spread out from St. Luke's Parish, and
a second nurse was appointed for work in other parts of
Eltham. The Woolwich and Plumstead Nursing Association
and the Silvertown and North Woolwich Nursing
Association continued to carry on their activities as in previous
years.
The Borough Council have entered into agreements with
all the Nursing Associations whereby nursing assistance in
necessitous cases is paid for by the Council for patients