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Disposable Equipment
Disposable syringes, gloves, masks, caps and razors are used throughout
the home nursing service. These items undoubtedly assist and guarantee
sterility of equipment for the nurse in her work in domiciliary practice.
Marie Curie Foundation—Day and Night Nursing Service
The Foundation nurses continue to provide a much appreciated
nursing service in terminal cases of malignancy. Two nurses are on the
roll and they have dealt with twenty-six patients throughout the year.
The majority of requests for the service has been for night duty work.
Student Visits on the District
Students from Edgware, Harrow, The Middlesex and Mount Vernon
Hospitals visited the department and accompanied the Home Nurses on
domiciliary visits. This is part of the training programme and enables
them to see at first hand some of a local health authority's services.
Section 26 — Vaccination and Immunisation
No changes were made in the immunisation schedules during the
year and every opportunity was taken by the health staff to advise parents
of the importance of ensuring that all children were fully protected against
smallpox, diphtheria, whooping cough, tetanus and poliomyelitis.
Facilities for vaccination and immunisation were as usual made available
at all clinics in the Borough and, of course, can be obtained through the
general practitioner service if so desired.
The following tables show the numbers of children under sixteen who
completed vaccination or immunisation during 1966. The figures compare
favourably with those for 1965.