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ear, throat and nose defects including the operative treatment of tonsils and adenoids,
minor ailments, dental cases, and the treatment of verminous heads.

These figures represent new cases and not attendances. At Prince of Wales' Road there
were 28,080 attendances in the Minor Ailment Department, and at Lancing Street 27,383.
In connection with Prince of Wales' Road 733 visits were paid to children at their homes,
and with Lancing Street 338. These home visits were made by the Central St. Pancras
District Nursing Association.
At Prince of Wales' Road 3,273 children had their heads cleansed.
At Prince of Wales' Road operations were performed on 485 children and at Lancing
Street on 226.
In all operation cases, the greatest care is taken that all bleeding has stopped and that
the children are quite fit to return home. In 6 cases the child was detained for the night.
These figures represent a large amount of work, and the greatest credit is due to the
Doctors, Dental Surgeons, Nurses in charge, and Nurses of the Central St. Pancras Nursing
Association, for the devoted work that they have done.
There will be a new development this year (1922). Mr. and Mrs. R. Kohnstamm of
Hampstead are building a new clinic in Chester Road in memory of their two sons who
were killed in the war. The foundation stone of this, the Highgate New Town Clinic,
was laid on 11th May, 1922, by Mr. F. R. Anderton, the Chairman of the London County
Council, and when finished it will be a spacious, beautiful and model building for this class
of work. It is hoped to build and equip this Clinic ready for work by 1st January, 1923.
A. R. Roche,
Secretary and Superintendent.
Section V.— FOOD.
(a) MILK SUPPLY.
Almost the whole of the milk supply of St. Pancras is derived from dairy farms in the
provinces and is brought into London by train. A great deal of milk also comes into the great
railway stations in the Borough for distribution in other parts of London.
A bacteriological investigation into the condition of the milk brought into and sold in
the borough was conducted in 1920, which showed that the state of the milk generally was most
unsatisfactory. The results of the investigation were fully reported in the Annual Report
for 1920 (pages 59-58).