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Kingston upon Thames 1947

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Kingston-upon-Thames]

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(c) Nursing in the Home.
(1) General, This is carried out, in the main, byDistrict
Nurses from the Kingston Nursing association,, The
following Statistical Report is taken from the annual Report
of the Kingston Nursing Association:-

Statistical Report in District Nursing,,

(Extracted from Annual Reports of the Kingston Nursing Association.)

19431944194519461947
Cases:
Cases on books on 1st January67677572101
New cases„ „626609660693704
Results of Cases:
Convalescent466435508488549
Transferred to Hospital8159566453
Died77929310193
Removed for other causes21561112
Still on books67757210198
Visits:
General Nursing .16,97416,97919,85119,95019,832
Casual150124223187230

Very valuable service is being rendered by the
District Nurses in the care of the aged, sometimes assisted
by domestic helps from the Corporation Home Help Scheme.
It is interesting to note that one-third of the
cases treated by the District Nurses were over seventy
years of age.
(2) Infectious Diseases. In Measles, Whooping
Cough and Epidemic Diarrhoea, the Health Visitors are under
instruction to visit the cases and give practical advice as
to the best methods of nursing them.