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Eighteen more persons received relief than in 1926, and the
expenditure was nearly £3,000 more. The number of ordinary
cases shows an increase and the number of unemployed cases a
decrease.
SUMMARY OF NURSING, HOSPITAL AND OTHER
INSTITUTIONS AVAILABLE IN THE DISTRICT.
Nursing.—The Hornsey District Nursing Association, which
had been formed at the time of issue of my last Report, commenced
its activities on the 1st July, and now covers the whole
of the Borough, in addition to a small part of Tottenham near
Green Lanes and a small part of St. Pancras at the top of Highgate
Hill. In return for a grant of 25 guineas a year commencing
on the 20th September, 1927, the Association undertakes to nurse
cases of measles and whooping cough, and in return for an annual
grant of £5 by the Education Committee commencing on 1st
January, 1928, to visit when necessary children who have been
operated on for enlarged tonsils and adenoids. A full account
of the Association's inauguration and work will be found on
page 31.
The arrangement, instituted in November, 1925, with the
North London Nursing Association for the nursing of children
below school age in the southern and eastern parts of the Borough,
for which the Council paid a sum of 1s. 4d. a visit, was discontinued
on the taking over of this area by the Borough Nursing
Association.
The Hornsey Deanery Association for Preventive and Rescue
Work at 109, Upper Tollington Park, receives unmarried
mothers and their babies. A grant of £50 was made by the
Council during the year, and the Association also receives a grant