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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:-
Six whole time Nursing Sisters, and one whole time Male Nurse
have given a good nursing service in the Borough of Wanstead and
Woodford during 1960.
The work has mainly been concerned with the elderlv and the
chronic sick.
1960
Number of New Cases 511
Number of Nursing visits 17570
Advisory or casual visits 683
Last Offices 12
VACCINATION AND IMMUNISATION (Section 26)
Vaccination and immunisation is available at all Child Welfare
Clinics but in the majority of cases is carried out by the family doctor.
Intensive propaganda, both personal on the part of the clinic
doctors and Health Visitors, and by means of leaflets and birthday
cards, is maintained to ensure that all infants are immunised against
Diphtheria. During the past 10 years the incidence of the disease has
fallen to a minimum with the result that never having experienced
it, present day parents tend to become complacent, and to postpone
immunisation. It is impossible to give an accurate figure of the protection
rate as many practitioners do not trouble to claim the small
fee available to them for recording the immunisation.
Immunisation against whooping cough is normally carried out
from the 3rd-6th month.
The number of children who completed a full course of primary
immunisation against diphtheria during the year is set out below
41