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CONVALESCENT HOMES.
In 1923, the Borough Council paid subscriptions of £16 16s. Od. to the Evelyn Convalescent
Cottage Home, Wargrave, Berkshire, and £8 8s. Od. to the Hambledon Cottage Home, Surrey.
During the summer months, fifteen mothers with their babies and four without babies were
sent to one or other of these Convalescent Homes for a fortnight's holiday.
HOME HELPS.
Two applications for Home Helps under the Council's scheme have been granted during
the year.
HOME NURSING.
Nurses of the Kensington District Nursing Association undertake, when requested by the
Medical Officer of Health, the home nursing of Measles, German Measles, Whooping Cough,
Ophthalmia, Summer Diarrhoea, Tuberculosis and any other-disease for which nursing assistance is
required. In addition, tne Association retain on their staff a trained nurse who is also a qualified
midwife and who is available for the nursing of certain maternity and ophthalmia cases in which it
is inadvisable, from the point of view of the spread of infection, for a midwife to continue in
attendance.
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.
For the splendid services rendered, the Council paid to the Association in 1923 a grant
of £200.

In my last Report mention was made of the employment by the Golborne Infant Welfare
Centre of a trained nurse to undertake home nursing of expectant and nursing mothers and infants
in the very poor area attached 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 at a conference attended 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
between the Hon. Secretary of the Centre, the Superintendent of the Association and myself, there
has been no trouble whatever in deciding the sphere of work for the staff of each organisation.