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'Families in Stress' and the focus on 'Gambling, Alcoholism,
Drug Addiction and Crime'.
In October 1966, Health Visitor Miss Cooke was invited to
spend a half-day at the Nursing Exhibition on the stand
"Recruitment of Student Health Visitors" for the Council for
the Training of Health Visitors.
Home Accidents
Accident prevention continues to be one of our special
priorities for health education in the home.
At the time of writing the report 694 children under 5 and
elderly people over the age of 60 years of age have been
visited following the usual note from King George Hospital.
The note advises us that the patient has been treated in
casualty and the Health Visitors follow-up the cases at home.
We often do not know immediately that the elderly have been
admitted to the wards. If the child has been admitted the
Health Visitor visiting the children's ward weekly, lets the
Health Visitor know.
SECTION 25
HOME NURSING
Home Nursing
1966 was the first full year of the Home Nursing Service
under the administration of the London Borough of Redbridge.
Details of the work undertaken by the Home Nurses are as
follows:—
Total patients nursed — 3,054
Aged under 5 years — 70
Aged over 65 years — 1,891
Others — 1,093
Miss M.A. Potter, Superintendent of Midwives and District
Nurses reports as follows on the Home Nursing Service:-
Since the merging of the two Boroughs of Wanstead and
Woodford and Ilford into the present Borough of Redbridge and
having celebrated our first anniversary we feel that some of
the "teething* problems have been resolved. Although the
changes have been only minor in detail they have presented
themselves as problems to the individuals concerned.