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Two Student Health Visitors received practical training in Tuberculosis
Health Visiting and Chest Clinic experience at Harts Hospital.
One Student from the University of Southampton on a Social
Studies Course also received practical training.
Twenty-four Student Nurses from Wanstead Hospital have each
received two days practical training in the Public Health field during
the year (May and October 1959). Relaxation and Mothercraft classes
continue to be popular.
The following table sets out statistically the work of the Health
Visitors in the Borough during 1959:—
Expectant Mothers (first visits) 135
Expectant Mothers (re-visits) 110
Infants under one year (first visits) 699
Infants under one year (re-visits) 1,449
Infants 1 to 5 years (first visits) 83
Infants 1 to 5 years (re-visits) 2,202
Stillbirth enquiries 24
Infant death 14
Tuberculosis Patients 895
Aged and infirm 332
Day Nursery Applications 5
School Children 280
Other visits 412
Ineffective Calls 846
7,486
HOME NURSING (Section 25)
The Nursing Superintendent of District Nurses, Miss A. Williams,
S.R.N., S.C.M., Q.I., H.V Cert., reports as follows:—
Five whole-time Nursing Sisters, two whole-time Male Nurses,
one part-time Nursing Sister and one part-time Male Nurse, have
been employed on General Nursing duties in the Borough of Wanstead
and Woodford during the year 1959.
A good nursing service has been given throughout the year, the
work undertaken has been mainly concerned with the elderly and
chronic sick, although there has been an increase in the requests for
domiciliary chiropody treatment, which the nursing staff have adequately
dealt with. A domiciliary chiropody service to meet this
need would be greatly appreciated.
1959 1958
Number of new cases 621 596
Number of visits 22,377 20,448
Last Offices performed 19 25
Advisory or Casual Visits 368 308
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