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In addition to these services the Council hire ambulances of the London County
Council for the conveyance of non-urgent maternity cases, between 8 a.m. and
11 p.m., to hospitals in the London area. A note on the use of this service will be
found in the Maternity and Child Welfare Section.
iv. Professional Nursing in the Home.
During the year nursing assistance was available in all parts of the Borough.
Such assistance is provided by four Nursing Associations, as follows:—
Woolwich and Plumstead District Nursing Association:
All Woolwich (except North Woolwich) and Plumstead.
Silvertown and North Woolwich District Nursing Association:
North Woolwich.
Eltham Provident Nursing Association:
All Eltham (except New Eltham).
New Eltham District Nursing Association:
New Eltham.
All these Associations insist that the patient shall be under the care of a medical
practitioner, and, in ordinary circumstances, only nurse non-infectious cases. On
the recommendation of the Medical Officer of Health, however, they provide nursing
assistance for cases of measles, whooping cough, zymotic enteritis, ophthalmia
neonatorum, pneumonia, anterior poliomyelitis, tuberculosis, puerperal fever and
puerperal pyrexia. For nursing assistance the Borough Council pay, in necessitous
cases, in accordance with the following schedule:—
Disease. Rate of Payment.
Measles
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 1s. 0d. per visit for one case; 6d. per visit, per
Zymotic Enteritis case, for more than one case in the house at
Whooping Cough the same time.
Poliomyelitis
Acute Primary Pneumonia
Influenzal Pneumonia
Puerperal Fever 1s. 3d. per visit.
Puerperal Pyrexia
Tuberculosis
An additional grant is made yearly in respect of the nursing treatment of children
suffering from threadworms.