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GENERAL PROVISION OF HEALTH SERVICES IN THE AREA.
Nursing in the Home.
General Nursing.
The local District Nursing Association provides two nurses, one on
the north side and one on the south side of the district, for the home nursing
of cases of ordinary sickness and accidents.
During 1934, 587 patients were treated and the total number of visits
made by the nurses was 7363. A certain number of these patients were referred
to the Nursing Association from the Maternity and Child Welfare
Clinics.
The Council makes a monetary grant towards this service.
Infectious Disease (Measles).
The Health Visitors act if need be as nurses in the case of Measles
outbreaks.
Clinic and Treatment Centres.
Table No. 7 shows the services provided in the district.
First Aid Dressing Station and Medical Comforts Depot.
These Departments of honorary public service, organised by the St.
John's Ambulance Brigade, were started in 1928. The men of the 55th
Division, No. 1 District are detailed for rotation duty, and a great deal of
praiseworthy work continues to be done.
The Medical Comforts Depot, in charge of Nursing Sisters (55th
Division Nursing), is open daily from 7.30 to 8.30 p.m., for the issue of all
nursing requisitites for the sick on presentation of a voucher signed by a
District Nurse, a Certified Midwife, or a Medical Practitioner. A small charge
is made for the loan of articles and such money is used towards replacements.
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