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The total expenditure of the Nursery was slightly less than last year,
namely, £864, and was met as follows :—
Attendance Fees paid by mothers £209
Payments for Resident Children by the Council (for
children sent by them) £27
Grant from the Ministry of Health £344
Grant from the Edmonton Education Committee in
recognition of Training in Mothercraft for Council
Schoolgirls £50
The balance of about £235 was met by voluntary contributors. Included
in this amount was a sum of £20, being the result of a Concert organised by
Mrs. Wrigglesworth; a donation of three guineas from the Winchmore Hill
Congregational Sunday School; and a further donation of 18s. 6d., the result
of a Carolling Party by the Young People's Section of the same Church.
The health of the children has been remarkably good, with the exception
of the period above mentioned, when measles was prevalent.
PROFESSIONAL NURSING IN THE HOME.
An arrangement is made with the Bury House branch of the Cottage
Benefit Nursing Association, by which trained nurses are sent to those cases
of infectious disease which are not usually received into an Isolation Hospital,
and to other cases, on application to the Medical Officer of Health.
The Council pay a retaining fee of £20 yearly; 1s. for each of the first
three visits per case, and 6d. for subsequent visits.
The total cost for the year was £100 13s. 6d.
Nurses are also sent to other cases, such as those suffering from cancer,
tuberculosis, senility, etc.
Altogether 37 patients have had the benefit of the-free services of a trained
nurse, many of these for several months, and four for the whole year.
Midwives.
The Middlesex County Council is the local supervising authority under
the Midwives' Acts, and Dr. Tate, the County Medical Officer of Health, has
furnished me with the fallowing particulars:—
During the year 1928, twenty midwives have been practising in the district,
of whom nine removed, leaving eleven on the register at the end of the year.
Of this number, four were employed at the North Middlesex Hospital,
ten by the Nursing Association, and six were in private practice.
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