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SCARLET FEVER AND DIPHTHERIA.
Scarlet Fever and Diphtheria were prevalent during the year, and
hospital accommodation proved, as it usually does during epidemic
prevalence, to be totally inadequate. The consequence was that many
of the patients in a highly infectious condition were nursed at home
and multiple cases occurred with unfortunate frequency. The Scarlet
Fever was not of a severe type, but Diphtheria claimed 49 victims,
indicating a case mortality of 8"7 per cent.
NURSING ARRANGEMENTS.
General Nursing.—The District Nursing Association undertake,
so far as their staff allows, nursing of general cases in the homes of the
poor of Tottenham.
Infectious Diseases.—The Maternity and Child Welfare Committee
have an arrangement with the District Nursing Association for the
domiciliary treatment of cases of Measles, Whooping Cough, Ophthalmia
Neonatorum, Epidemic Diarrhoea and Ante-natal cases.
Midwives.—There are 15 Midwives practising in the district.