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The following changes in the personnel of the staff took place
during 1925:—
Dr. Henry E. Cox succeeded Mr. A. W. Stokes as Public
Analyst.
Miss E. Selwood was appointed as an additional Clerk.
Mr. Cyril W. Francis, a.c.i.s., resigned in November his
position as a Clerk, on his appointment as Assistant
Secretary to the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons.
W. Larken retired from the post of Mortuary Keeper.
W. Day was appointed as an Assistant to the Sanitary
Inspectors, in place of R. Martin appointed temporary
Mortuary Keeper.
Professional Nursing in the Home.
(a) General. The Borough is well served by two excellently
managed Nursing Associations: the Hampstead District Nursing
Association, 25, Heathliurst Road, and the Kilburn and West Hampstead
District Nursing Association, 20, Dennington Park Road. Both
Associations provide skilled nurses for the sick poor. The Borough
Council subsidises the work of the Associations.
(b) For Infectious Diseases. By arrangements made between the
two Nursing Associations and the Borough Council, whereby the
Council contribute towards the expenses of the Associations, nurses are
available for cases of Measles, Whooping Cough, Epidemic Diarrhoea,
Ophthalmia Neonatorum, Acute Primary or Acute Influenzal
Pneumonia, Influenza, Malaria, Dysentery or Trench Fever. During
1925,25 cases were nursed under this arrangement by the Kilburn and
West Hampstead District Nursing Association, and 12 by the Hampstead
District Nursing Association.
(c) For Maternity Cases. By agreements between the two Nursing
Associations and the Borough Council, skilled maternity nursing can be
obtained for cases in the Borough. Both Associations have fully
trained nurses appointed to attend maternity cases, and any woman can
have a fully trained nurse attend her together with her own doctor.
A fee is charged the patient, which is in accordance with her means,
and may be nothing in very poor cases. The Council guarantee one of
the Associations against the loss, up to £100, on the working of the
Maternity Nurses, and in respect of the other Association pay a sum of
£2 2s. 0d. per miteruity and midwifery case nursed irrespective of the