The Labour Party and the Nursing Profession
1927 1927 1920s 40 pages 39 both with the housing authority and with the tuberculosis patient, can be more effective in this respect than anything else. 10. Help and advice in finding work. While there is urgent need for the provision of more tuberculosis colonies, something can be done by helping...
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London : The Labour Party (London : Co-operative Print. Society Ltd.)
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39 both with the housing authority and with the tuberculosis patient, can be more effective in this respect than anything else. 10. Help and advice in finding work. While there is urgent need for the provision of more tuberculosis colonies, something can be done by helping patients to advertise, giving personal recommendations, etc. As in the case of school nursing, tuberculosis visiting is included among the duties of a health visitor in the case of some local authorities. In London, special officers are usually appointed for this work, and this is also the practice in some large provincial towns. In rural areas, the work is carried out by the County Council, which may either appoint special officers for the work, or may include it among the duties of their health visiting staff. In urban districts, this work may form part of the duties of the health visitor or of a sanitary inspector, where one is appointed, or it may be carried out by the Comity Council. In Wales there is a complete scheme for the treatment of tuberculosis, which is carried out by the King Edward VII. Welsh National Memorial Association throughout the country, and is not undertaken by any of the local authorities. SALARIES AND CONDITIONS OF SERVICE. Salaries and other conditions of service are usually the same as for health visitors in the service of the same local authority. ORGANISATION. The organisation of health visitors and of other women public health officers is progressing, though it is still incomplete. The oldest organisation and the only one admitting no other workers, is the Women Sanitary Inspectors' and Health Visitors' Association which is affiliated to the Trades Union Congress. In addition, certain nurses' organisations, e.g., the College of Nursing and the Professional Union of Trained Nurses, have public health sections, consisting of nurses engaged in public health work. The National Union of Local Government Officers, and the Staff Associations and Guilds of Officers of certain large local authorities, also include women public health officers in their membership. RECOMMENDATIONS. We think that the training and working conditions of health visitors, school nurses and tuberculosis visitors ought now to be standardised throughout the country. Every effort ought to be made to reduce the number of different officials visiting the home. In the country districts the three functions are usually performed by one person, and the arrangement works very satisfactorily. London and some other large towns do not follow out this practice, but this is an ideal which should be aimed at. We recognise that the duties performed by health visitors must continue to vary to some extent under different local authorities, and that the problems with which they have to deal involve a considerable knowledge of the laws of personal and public health as well as of economic and social problems. For these reasons, we are of opinion that three sources of supply may provide valuable health visitors, all of whom should possess the same State Health Visitors' Certificate obtained after passing the same recognised State examination, and all of whom should be included in a State Register of Health Visitors. These sources of supply are :— 1. Nurses with three years' general training, in a general or children's hospital, holding the C.M.B. certificate and having had one year's training in preventive and social work.
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