Fifth annual report upon tuberculosis and the administration of Sanitorium Benefit / by Alfred Greenwood, Medical Officer of Health to the Kent County Council and Medical Adviser to the Kent Insurance Committee.

  • Greenwood, Alfred.
Date:
1918
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Credit: Fifth annual report upon tuberculosis and the administration of Sanitorium Benefit / by Alfred Greenwood, Medical Officer of Health to the Kent County Council and Medical Adviser to the Kent Insurance Committee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Table 7.—Showing the numbers of Bottles of Medicine given to Patients attending the Tuberculosis Dispensaries, in each Area, during 1917. Dispensary Area. Malt and Cod Liver Oil (in¬ cluding Malt Extract). Cod Liver on Emulsion. Cod Liver Oil. Stock Mixtures. Prescrip¬ tions. No. 1. 8,600 3.900 1,400 6,891 581 2. 3,120 1,318 — 1,922 292 3. 4,443 758 201 2,329 993 4. 4,240 1,280 585 4,754 271 Totals 20,403 7,266 2,186 15,896 2,137 Work of Tuberculosis Nurses.—The following table shows the numbers of visits to the homes of patients, paid by the whole-time and part-time tuberculosis nurses respectively, during the year 1917. Table 8. Whole-time. Area No. 1. Nurse Anderson 707 Area No. 2. Nurses Foster and Main 676 Area No. 3. Nurse Workman 56] Area No. 4. Nurse Harvey .. *305 Area No. 5. Nurse Bailev 605 Part-time, Beckenhpom. —Nurses Day and Cusack 241 Bromley.—Nurses Bayle and Wide 121 Sevenoaks— -Nurses Randolph and Stringer 127 Sittingbourne.—-Nurses Furminger and Parish 83 Sheerness.— -Nurse Dockrill 175 Total .. 3,601 *Nurse Harvey devotes a considerable amount of time to the manufacture of splints, in addition to attendances at six dispensaries, and is therefore unable to devote such a large amount of time to home visiting as the other whole-time nurses.