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No. of confinements attended as midwife 108
No. of confinements attended as maternity nurse 61
i.e. doctor also present
TOTAL 169
Gas and Air Analgesia
A total of 141 patients in the district received gas and air analgesia.
Training of Pupil Midwives
During the year a request was received from the District Nurses'
Home at Walthamstow for some temporary assistance to be given in
the training of pupil midwives. As a result 6 pupils received training
from one of our district midwives.
HEALTH VISITING (Section 24)
5 Health Visitors were employed in the Borough during 1955. The
Superintendent Health Visitor, Miss C. M. W. Court, A.R.R.C., S.R.N.,
S.C.M., H.V. Cert, reports as follows:—
Throughout the year the general shortage of Health Visitors has
been felt in Wanstead and Woodford. Additional duties have added
to their case load, ie., B.C.G. Vaccination and Poliomyelitis Vaccination,
so that visiting in the Borough has been selective.
Requests from Hospitals to visit aged persons are numerous, to
ascertain on discharge the need of home helps or domiciliary nursing.
Health Education in the Borough is at present confined to Mothercraft
Classes to expectant mothers combined with relaxation twice
a week, and a few lectures on the Work of the Health Visitor have
been given to the Townswomens Guilds.
Under the new General Nursing Council Syllabus, lectures on the
"Social Aspects of Disease" are now given by a Health Visitor to
Nursing Students at Wanstead Hospital, which is followed by the
students being given practical training in the Public Health Field
entailing Home Visiting with a Health Visitor and attendance at
Infant Welfare Centres and Case Conferences.
Two Health Visitor Students from the South East Essex Technical
College were allocated to Health Visitors, to correlate the practical
and theoretical work of the Students.
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