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GENERAL PROVISION OF HEALTH SERVICES IN
THE AREA.
PROFESSIONAL NURSING IN THE HOME.
(a) General.—This is carried out in the Borough by the
Hackney District Nursing Association, which employs a staff,
including the Superintendent, of 28 trained nurses who attend at
the houses of the sick, at such times as are necessary, to carry out
skilled nursing.
(b) Infectious Diseases.—No alteration has been required in the
arrangements which have existed for some years between the
Association and the Borough Council for nursing selected cases of
infectious disease.
Nursing assistance is granted under the Maternity and Child
Welfare Scheme in cases of ophthalmia neonatorum, puerperal fever,
puerperal pyrexia, measles and German measles, whooping cough,
epidemic diarrhoea, polio-myelitis and maternity nursing.
The fee paid to the Nursing Association is Is. 3d. per visit.
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.

The following table shows the number of cases attended and
the visits paid by the nurses during the year.