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Home Nursing No. of patients being attended by home nurses
at the end of the year 6
Home Help No. of cases serviced by a home help during
year 38
Extra nourishment No. of cases receiving nourishment at end of
year 129
When tuberculosis occurs in a home where there are children, every effort
is made to keep the children in the family but sometimes the only solution is
to board them out in a private home. Although my recommendation for admission
to a home continues to be required, as from 1st October the detailed arrangements
have been made by a Child Care Officer in the Children's Department because the
child apart from being a contact is otherwise healthy. Arrangements for the
periodic medical examination of the children continues to be undertaken in this
Department. Fortunately, only six children had to be placed during the year.
The Consultant Chest Physicians for the three chest clinics covering the
Borough have very kindly supplied me with reports on their work.
Summarised, these reports state that although the prevention, diagnosis and
treatment of tuberculosis remains an important part of the work of the clinics,
and is likely to continue to do so for some years to come, other chest conditions,
e.g. chronic bronchitis, carcinoma and asthma, form an increasingly larger proportion
of the work each year. The Chest Clinics also gave protection to 205
contacts by means of B.C.G. vaccination.
VENEREAL DISEASE
The Hackney Hospital Management Committee maintain two clinics, one at
Homerton Grove and the other at the Mothers' Hospital, but the Council provides
the venereal diseases social worker who follows up cases and endeavours to trace
the source of infection. Previously this Council shared the services of a
social worker with the London Borough of the City of Westminster, but it soon
became apparent that a full-time worker was needed in this area to deal with the
problem adequately and during the year a full-time social worker was engaged.