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NURSING ASSOCIATION.
Arrangements continue with the Isleworth Nursing Association
whereby nursing assistance may be obtained for maternity cases
and for the nursing of Measles, Whooping Cough, Epidemic
Diarrhoea and Poliomyelitis in young children and cases of
Ophthalmia Neonatorum.
HOSPITAL ACCOMMODATION.
The need for hospital accommodation for maternity cases and
for sick children has again been discussed and reported on during
the year, but owing to difficulties in the way of securing suitable
premises, no definite steps have yet been taken in the matter. It
is recognised that it would be wiser to acquire a site as nearly as
possible equally accessible from the several centres of population
in the district, whereon a Maternity Hostel, a Creche and a School
Clinic could be erected as circumstances would permit.
INFANT DEATHS, STILL BIRTHS, MEASLES, etc.
Infant deaths are inquired into, 40 visits having been paid for
this purpose. Still births have not yet been investigated, but 21
are noted as having occurred during the year. For the incidence
of infectious disease among parturient women and children, see
the table on page 41.