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1. Nursing in the Home.
(a) General.— There are two Local District Nursing
Associations within the area, situated at Bulphan
and Langdon Hills. Their work is co-ordinated both
with the County Council and with the Sanitary Authority.
Each Association receives an annual grant from
the County Council and a certain amount of professional
nursing is carried out upon occasion by the Health
Visitors. Attention should be called to the excellent
work performed by the 48th Nursing Division of the
St. John Ambulance Brigade. The Division consists of
1 Lady Superintendent, 2 Lady Ambulance Officers and
about 25 Ambulance Sisters. The duties performed by
them have increased from 710 in 1926 to 2,344 in 1931.
These duties may be divided as follows:—
Motor Ambulance Duties 683
Hospital Home Comforts Centre 268
Orthopaedic Clinics, including Home Visits 271
Other cases, including Night-Nursing Visits 1122
It is impossible to praise too highly the work of the
Nursing Division, and their voluntary attendances at
the various Clinics should earn for them the gratitude
of the Local Authority and the Public.
I am indebted for the above figures to Mrs. A. H.
Harvey, the Lady Superintendent of the Division,