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Home Nursing Services.
The nursing of maternity and infectious disease cases arising
out of maternity, of specified cases of illness in children under
5 years, and also of the diseases set out in the Infectious Diseases
(London) Regulations, 1927, continued to be carried out by the
following nursing associations operating in the Borough: —
The Ranyard Nurses; Camberwell District Nursing Association;
Rotherhithe District Nurses; The East Dulwich and Dulwich
Village Nursing Association, and Nurse Thomas, who is responsible
for the nursing duties in the St. George's Parish of Camberwell.
With the exception of the East Dulwich and Dulwich Village
Nursing Association, who undertake the work of district nursing
without financial assistance from this Authority, the Council pays
each Association one shilling per visit to cases nursed and approved
by the Medical Officer of Health.
REPORT OF THE TUBERCULOSIS MEDICAL OFFICER
FOR THE YEAR 1929.
The Current List of Notifications of Tuberculosis in Camberwell
as at December 31st, 1929.
At December 31st, 1929, there were 2,591 cases of tuberculosis
on the current list in Camberwell.
There were 1,812 cases of pulmonary tuberculosis—1,000
males and 812 females, and 779 cases of non-pulmonary tuberculosis—425
males and 354 females.
TABLE I.
Number of Individual Cases on the Tuberculosis Register (Camberwell,
at the end of the years 1926, 1927, 1928 and 1929 respectively.
Year.
Pulmonary Tuberculosis.
Non-Pulmonary Tuberculosis.
Male.
Female.
Total.
Male.
Female.
Total.
1926
1,092
834
1,926
414
373
787
1927
983
738
1,721
386
350
736
] 928
965
769
1,734
395
342
737
1929
1,000
812
1,812
425
354
779
On Table I the number of notifications on the Tuberculosis
Register in Camberwell at the end of the years 1926, 1927, 1928
and 1929 respectively are compared.
Table II supplies an analysis under age periods, sex and the
broad grouping of pulmonary and non-pulmonary forms.