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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
East Ham 1958
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for East Ham]
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TABLE 26 HOME NURSING - STATISTICS
| Year | TYPE OF CASE | Number of Patients who were 65 or over at the time of the f irst visit during the year | Number of Children who were under 5 at the time of the first visit during the year | Number of Patients who had more than 24 visits during the year | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Medical | Surgical | Infectious Diseases | Tuberculosis | Maternal Complications | Others | Totals | |||||
| Number of cases attended by Home Nurses during the year | 1958 | 1 ,493 | 182 | 5 | 46 | 4 | 386 | 2,116 | 778 | 48 | 370 |
| 1959 | 1,367 | 141 | 3 | 57 | 9 | 144 | 1,721 | 602 | 26 | 393 | |
| Number of visits paid by Home Nurses during the year | 1958 | 45,652 | 3,833 | 23 | 1,818 | 39 | 3,802 | 55,167 | 36,817 | 195 | 39,503 |
| 1959 | 48,240 | 5,054 | 13 | 3,540 | 56 | 340 | 57,243 | 37,276 | 172 | 40,133 | |
For the period 1st January 1958 to 31st March 1959 all home nursing services were provided by voluntary organisations acting
as agents of the Council in accordance with agreements made under Section 25 of the Act.
From the 1st April 1959 the staff employed by the East Ham District Nursing Association were transferred to the Health Department
of the Authority and the administration of the service functioned from the Town Hall Annexe, in respect of the area of East Ham, North
of the Royal Docks.
The Woolwich & Plumstead District Nursing Association continued to provide for cases occurring in the small area of East Ham,
South of the Docks