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(e) Isolation Hospital Staff.
The staff consists of the Matron, one Sister, and eight trained
Nurses; there are, in addition, a lodge-porter, a disinfecting
officer, a boiler attendant, a gardener, and eleven domestic servants
included in the permanent staff.
(f) Other Staff.
Rat Catcher (who also acts as Disinfecting Officer). Public
Mortuary Attendant, Superintendent and Matron of the Cleansing
Station (part-time)
The Officers to whose salary contribution is made under the
Public Health Acts or by Exchequer Grants are the Medical Officer
of Health, the Chief Sanitary Inspector, and the two Health
Visitors.
(6) Professional Nursing in the Home.
(a) General Nursing. Neither the County Council nor the
District Council employ any nurses to undertake general nursing
in the homes of the poorer inhabitants of this District. Such
work is entirely arranged for by Voluntary Associations, and the
Urban District Council make a contribution of £50 per annum to
the Mortlake District Nursing Association towards the cost of such
services.
(b) For Infectious Diseases. No special nurses have been
provided for the actual nursing of cases of infectious diseases in
the homes of the poor; it is very desirable that such services
should be available for cases of measles of a severe type, or with
complications, occurring in poor class homes. Such cases should
be admitted to a hospital, but it is extremely rare that accommodation
at the Isolation Hospital is available for them.
(7) Midwives.
There are 8 Midwives practising in the District-5 of these
are resident within the District, and 3, although resident outside
the Urban District, occasionally practise in Barnes.
There are no Midwives working in the District employed by
or subsidised by a Public Health Authority, and I do not consider
such provision is needed.