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The results are extremely encouraging and the thanks of the District
are certainly due to the Nurses and the energetic Honorary Secretary of
the Association.
The Report for the nine months shows that there are five Nurses in
the District; that the number of patients nursed was 510; and that the
Nurses paid a total of 11,738 visits.
Finances are in a flourishing condition, and at a recent meeting it
was decided to go forward with a scheme for building a suitable house
to accommodate a greater number of nurses.
Clinics and Treatment Centres.
These have been fully described in previous Reports; no amendments
to these are necessary for the 1933 Report.
The work carried out by the Maternity and Child Welfare Clinic
is described later on.
Hospitals.
A similar remark applies to Hospitals. Cases of infectious disease
are admitted to the Enfield and Edmonton Joint Hospital.
Arrangements are made with the North Middlesex County Hospital
for the operative treatment of tonsils and adenoids by both the Education
and the Maternity and Child Welfare Committees; for the treatment of
mastoid cases and of ringworm of the scalp by X-ray measures by the
Education Committee; and treatment of children under the age of 5 years
by ultra-violet radiation by the Maternity and Child Welfare Committee.
SANITARY CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE AREA.
Water Supply.
The district is supplied by the Metropolitan Water Board.
Rivers and Streams.
The supervision of Pymmes Brook is undertaken by the River Lea
Catchment Board, and Salmon's Brook by the Middlesex County Council.
Public Cleansing.
This was fully described in the Report for 1932.
Bi-weekly collection of household refuse would be a boon to the
district, and an incinerator is long overdue.
The dumping of refuse in close proximity to Montagu Road during
the course of the year had to be abandoned: the nuisance from flies in
moderately-near dwellings was intolerable.
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