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GENERAL PROVISION OF HEALTH SERVICES IN THE AREA.
Nursing in the Home.
General Nursing.
The local District Nursing Association provides three nurses in the
district for the home nursing of cases of ordinary sickness and accidents. The
third nurse was appointed in October, 1935.
During 1935, 543 patients were treated and the total number of visits
made by the nurses was 9,487. 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. No call was made on their services during the year.
Clinics and Treatment Centres.
Table No. 7 shows the services provided in the district.
Diphtheria Prevention Clinic.
The Council approved during the year a scheme for setting up a
diphtheria prevention clinic to be held at the Manor House on Thursday
afternoons. This scheme covers all children between the ages of one and 14
who do not go to their own doctor for the purpose of diphtheria prevention.
The scheme was approved by the Ministry of Health at the end of the year
subject to full details being included in my Annual Reports, and the first clinic
was started in March, 1936.
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
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