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are stopped, cleaned, and where necessary extracted, either under gas or a
local anaesthetic. The number for 1919 :—
Prince of Wales Road .. 2,003
Lancing Street .. . . 1,385
Minor Ailment Department.—It is difficult to explain the wide scope of these
departments. Skin cases of all kinds are dealt with, unclean heads, running
ears are treated daily, cuts, bruises, sores dressed, and a wide variety of
disabilities redressed. The department at each Centre is in charge of a
doctor, who attends once or twice a week as arranged to see new cases and
supervise treatment. At each Centre, by arrangement with the District
Nursing Association, a nurse is exclusively maintained for this work. She
attends the Sessions held by the doctor, and attends daily at each Centre at
12 and again at 4 for the routine treatment of the cases. The value of this
work both remedially and educationally can hardly be exaggerated, and the
hygienic influence ot the nurses is very great.
The number of cases of 1919 are:—
Prince of Wales Road .. 1,205.
Lancing Street.. 1,159.
As giving some idea of the work done, I may say the attendances at
Lancing Street for 1919 in the Minor Ailment Department totalled 26,450,
and at Prince of Wales Road, 28,819.
A. R. Roche.
The number of home visits made by the nurses in connection with the
school clinics was 585 from the Prince of Wales Road Centre and 661 from
the Lancing Street Centre. These were made by the Central St. Pancras
District Nursing Association.
Section III —FOOD.
(a) MILK SUPPLY.
Almost the whole of the milk used in St. Pancras is brought in from the
country by train. The cowsheds in the Borough, though registered for
96 cows, only contained about 30 cows in 1919. Much milk is also delivered
at the large railway termini in the Borough for distribution in other parts of
London. The methods of transporting and handling the milk and the
conditions in many of the milkshops are by no means satisfactory.
The administration in regard to the control of the milk supply from the
point of view of its content of tubercle bacilli is in the hands of the London
County Council.
Dairies, Cowsheds and Milkshops.
Cowsheds.—There were at the end of 1919 four licensed cowsheds in the
Borough. They were registered for 96 cows.