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Families in receipt of less income than that indicated in the table would be entitled to
receive milk. Where any doubt exists as to the true circumstances of the family, enquiries
are made by the Health Visitors attached to the various Welfare Centres.
Professional Nursing in Necessitous Homes.
This is now provided by the staff of the three following District Nursing Associations:—
Hampstead, Metropolitan and North London.
The Borough Council has an arrangement with all the above Associations for the Home
Nursing, at the request of the medical practitioner in attendance, of cases of Measles,
Whooping Cough, Ophthalmia Neonatorum, Pemphigus Neonatorum, Infective Enteritis,
Acute Primary and Acute Influenzal Pneumonia,
Arrangements are also in force with the Metropolitan District Nursing Association, whose
local headquarters are at 14, Oakley Square, for the home nursing of cases of Puerperal Fever
and Puerperal Pyrexia. Payment bv a block grant is made by the Council.

In addition to the above, the Metropolitan District Nursing Association also undertook
the necessary nursing arising in connection with 123 cases, chiefly maternity or tuberculosis,
and children's complaints, and to these 1,475 visits were paid.
Home Helps.
This term is used to describe women who have received a certain amount of training
in domestic work, including the care of young children. They are provided for necessitous
families where the mother is incapacitated on account of sickness or child.birth.
The management is in the hands of a Voluntary Committee, on which the Council is
represented by two members.
An annual grant of £150 is made by the Borough Council for use in respect of
maternity cases only.
Two permanent "Helps" were employed throughout the year, and 9 temporary
"Helps" for emergency cases.
78 applications were received and 71 cases were dealt with during the year, 66
being maternity and 5 sickness cases.