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practitioners that nursing is an urgent necessity is this assistance
granted; the scheme does not permit the granting of routine
nursing assistance.
Of these diseases Ophthalmia Neonatorum, Puerperal Fever
and Polio-Myelitis only are notifiable in this Borough.
2. Nursing assistance is granted under the various regulations,
etc., to cases of Tuberculosis, Pneumonia, Dysentery, etc.,
and here again nursing assistance is only granted to those most
urgently requiring this assistance.
3. The agreed amount to be paid to the nursing association
is Is. 3d. per visit.
4. A return is rendered by the Superintendent of the King's
Home for Nurses, giving the details of the cases nursed as regards
name, age, sex, address, disease, number of visits made
and amounts, if any, of contributions given to the Home by those
in charge of the patients nursed.
5. Where the patients or their relatives are able to make
a contribution to the nursing association, the amount so contributed
is deducted from the amount payable by this Council to
the nursing association.
6. The amount estimated, which will probably be expended
during the current year, under the Maternity and Child Welfare
heading, is £150, and under the general nursing heading £300,
making in all a total of £450 for nursing assistance.
For information as to visits see page 85.
Midwives—
There are no whole-time midwives employed by the Council.
The fees of midwives attending the confinements of necessitous
persons are paid as regards cases approved by the Maternity and
Child Welfare Committee. There are 34 midwives practising in
the Borough.