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St Pancras 1934
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]
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The Council passed a resolution in July, 1928, that 7½ per cent, be deducted from the
accounts of all dairymen supplying milk under the scheme to the value of £2 or over monthly.
This has reduced the above total by about £29.
The scale in use in making the grants is based on weekly income and was originally
drawn up by the Council in 1922. It was discontinued in April, 1928, and a new scale
brought into use in consequence of a recommendation by the Minister of Health that the
scale should be brought into accord with the fall in the index figure of the cost of living.
The present income scale, below which a family is eligible for an allowance, is sbown hereunder:—
| Number in Family. | After Deduction of Rent. | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free. | Half.price. | |||||||
| £ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. | |||
| One | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 9 | ||
| Two | 0 | 18 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 | ||
| Three | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 6 | ||
| Four | 1 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 11 | 3 | ||
| Five | 1 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 16 | 6 | ||
| Six | 1 | 13 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | ||
| Seven | 1 | 16 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 9 | ||
| Eight | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 3 | ||
Statements as to income for the purpose of these applications are verified by the
Health Visitors attached to the various Centres. Occasionally an enquiry is made of the
employer in verification of the statement of wages.
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.
Of these Associations, only the Metropolitan District Nursing Association, whose local
headquarters are at 14, Oakley Square, undertake the home nursing of cases of Puerperal
Fever and Puerperal Pyrexia. Payment for this nursing is included in the block grant.
The block grants made by the Council are as follows:—
District Nursing Association.
Under the
Maternity and
Child Welfare
Scheme.
Under the
Influenzal
Pneumonia
Regulations.
Total
Block
Grant.
£ £ £
Hampstead 20 10 30
Metropolitan 150 50 200
North London 15 10 25
Totals 185 70 255