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The Association, has made a successful beginning. A
senior nurse was appointed on the 1st June, 1927, two district
nurses on the 1st July, another on the 1st October, and an
additional temporary nurse on the 12th February, 1928.
Three hundred and fifty-four cases have been dealt with and
5,647 visits paid—18 per cent, of these free of charge to
poor persons. Subscribing donors numbering 342 have contributed
£267, and 2,666 members have paid £765. Grants,
donations and gifts from Local Charities, Public Authorities,
Churches and Societies amount to £168. In this figure is
included a sum of £83 18s. 5d. handed over by the St. Mary's
Nursing Association, which ceased its activities on the 31st
May, 1927, after 35 years of useful service in the Borough.
The financial position of the Association is thus secure up to
the 1st July, 1928, when most of the subscriptions become
renewable.
The conditions of membership are briefly these:—The
minimum payment for a subscriber, his wife and unmarried
children living at home is 4s. when the income of the family
does not exceed £200 per annum, 6s. when the income is
between £200 and £350, and 10s. when the income exceeds
£350 but is inadequate to provide private nursing attention.
Two months' subscription must be paid before a member is
entitled to benefit. A person cannot join as a member when
actually in need of a nurse, but can obtain service on payment
of not less than 1s. 6d. per visit.
Annual donors of not less than 10s. 6d. are entitled to
free service for their domestic staff, and in cases of emergency
can call in one of the nurses for any member of the family
at a fee of not less than 3s. 6d. a visit.
R. H. Crookall,
Hon. Secretary,
Borough of Hornsey Nursing Association."
DISEASES OF ANIMALS ACTS.
The following is a summary of the work carried out by Mr.
F. G. Buxton, M.R.C.V.S., the Veterinary Inspector, during
the year:—
Twenty-two licences were issued, viz.:—Sheep 11, beasts 7,
and pigs 4.