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A grant of £50 annually is made by the District Council towards
the expenses of the Day Nursery in Camden Road. A grant of £75
annually is made to the Carshalton District Nursing Association for
attendances of the nurses at the Welfare Centres, for taking duty for
the Health Visitor during absence on holiday, and for nursing cases
of infectious disease at times of epidemic.
The proportion of notifications of births has from time to time
been unsatisfactory; the District Council has issued frequent warnings,
and in 1925 informed one of the medical practitioners that proceedings
would be taken in the case of any further failure to comply with the
requirements of the Act.
During the five years three cases of Puerperal Fever, two of which
were removed to hospitals, were notified in the District; one proved
fatal in 1921 after removal, and there were in addition two fatal cases,
in 1921 and 1924, among persons belonging to Carshalton, in a
nursing home and a hospital in other districts. In 1923 the Wandle
Valley Isolation Hospital Board entered into an agreement with the
District Council to receive cases of Puerperal Fever into their hospital,
which is situated in this District.
Measles caused two deaths among young children, in 1921 and
1922; Whooping Cough caused six deaths, one in 1921, two in 1922,
two in 1924, and one in 1925; Diarrhoea caused four deaths, one each
in 1921, 1922, 1924 and 1925. Inquiries are made by the Health
Visitor as to young children in houses in which cases of Measles and
Whooping Cough are notified by the School Teachers, advice is given,
and leaflets are distributed. During the summer months addresses
upon the subject of Infantile Diarrhoea are given at the Welfare
Centres, and leaflets are distributed.
One case of Ophthalmia Neonatorum in 1921, and two cases in
1923, were notified, but no notification was received in the other three
years.
J. WILLIAMSON,
Medical Officer of Health.
Epsom,
May, 7926