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The nurses carry out their work with enthusiasm and ability, and those doctors who are called
upon to attend the poor in the Borough appreciate very much the splendid assistance they get
from these trained women. They are always willing to attend at any time they are called upon,
and throughout the whole year the officers of the Public Health Department have not had one
case where a request for nursing assistance has not been met promptly, even in times of pressure.
The very important part the nurses take in connection with the Council's schemes for the
treatment of ophthalmia neonatorum and zymotic enteritis is referred to on pages 18 and 20.
of this report.
For the splendid services rendered, the Council paid to the Association in 1924 a grant
of £200.

A trained nurse is employed by the Golborne Infant Welfare Centre to undertake home
nursing of expectant and nursing mothers and infants in the very poor area allocated to that
Centre. In order to avoid overlapping with the nurses of the Kensington District Nursing
Association, the work of the Golborne Home Nurse has been mapped out by the Honorary
Secretary of the Golborne Centre, the Superintendent of the Nursing Association and myself, and
the rules laid down have been found to work quite satisfactorily. Certain types of cases have been
attended by the Golborne Nurse and others by the nurses of the Association, and as a result
of close co-operation and consultation, there has been no trouble whatever in deciding the sphere
of work for the staff of each organisation.

SUPPLY OF EXTRA NOURISHMENT TO MOTHERS AND CHILDREN.
The distribution of extra nourishment to mothers and children is part of the Council's
Maternity and Child Welfare Scheme, but at the suggestion of the Ministry of Health the record
of the work done is given under the "Food Supply" section of this report and will be found on
page 51.