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the forms and carry out the instructions contained therein. The nurse will
submit to the Medical Officer of Health a monthly return showing the daily
number of visits paid.
Extra Medical Relief.
Recommendations for additional nourishment must be forwarded to the
Relieving Officers (see Form (e) ), who will bring them to the notice of the
next Relief Sub-Committee—the Relieving Officer in the meantime granting
such "medical extras" on their own responsibility in cases of urgent necessity.
Admissions to Special Institutions or Convalescent Homes.
Where a medical practitioner recommends that a patient be sent either
to a Convalescent Home or for treatment in a special Institution, he shall
forward such recommendations to the Medical Officer of Health, who will
examine such patient and forward a report to the Public Assistance Officer
for submission to the Public Assistance Committee.
TABLE 5.
Public Assistance Domiciliary Medical Service.
Statistical Return for 3 Months Ending 31.12.33.
No. of
individual
patients.
No. of
attendances
at homes.
No. of
attendances
at Surgery.
Total No.
of
attendances.
No. of occasions
medicines
supplied without
seeing patients.
No. of recommendations
for
extra
nourishment.
756
725
2,196
2,921
283
96
No. of cases urgently admitted to hospital 2
No. of applications to M.O. H. for hospital treatment 18
Public Assistance Nurse.
(3 Months Ending 31.12.33.)
No. of requisitions received for attendance of nurse 21
Total number of attendances at homes by nurse 337
District Medical Officers.
No. of visits
to homes of
patients.
No. of Patients
seen at Public
Dispensary.
No. of prescriptions
issued.
Dr. Harrison (1)
2,300
2,892
2,320
Dr. O'Moore (2)
474
1,722
1,548
Dr. Brews (3)
314
*612
678
(1) Dr. Harrison's figures relate to period 1.1.33 to 31.5.33.
(2) Dr. O'Moore's figures relate to period 1.6.33 to 30.9.33.
Dr. Brews (3)
314
*612
678
*Visits to Surgery.