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Fourteen more persons received relief than in 1927, but the expenditure
was nearly £3,200 less. There was a slight increase in
each class of case.
SUMMARY OF NURSING, HOSPITAL AND OTHER
INSTITUTIONS AVAILABLE IN THE DISTRICT,
Nursing.—The Hornsey Nursing Association, which has been
in existence since 1st July, 1927, now covers the whole of the
Borough, in addition to a small part of Tottenham near Green
Lanes and a small part of St. Pancras at the top of Highgate
Hill. In return for a grant of 25 guineas a year the Association
undertakes to nurse cases of measles and whooping cough, and
in return for an annual grant of £5 by the Education Committee
to visit when necessary children who have been operated on for
enlarged tonsils and adenoids.
I am indebted to Mr. R. H. Crookall, the Hon. Secretary,
for the following account of the Association's activities during the
year 1928:—
The work of the Association has made steady progress
during the year and there are now one Superintendent and four
nurses on the permanent staff, with an additional nurse engaged
temporarily from October.
A total of 673 oases have been dealt with and 12,017 visits
paid. These figures include 134 referred cases of children of
school age, followed up after operation for enlarged tonsils and
adenoids, to whom 151 visits were paid under grants from the
Council. Seventy-two per cent, of the visits were paid to members
and donors' domestic staff, 6 per cent. free of charge to poor
persons and 21 per cent. to non-members paying fees.
Amongst the cases dealt with have been the following:—
Complications.
Measles 7 (3 of these had Pneumonia)
Pneumonia 25 (1 pleurisy, 1 whooping cough)
(excluding the above 3)
Pleurisy 11 (1 influenza)
Broncho-Pneumonia 3
Influenza 7
Acute Rheumatism 4
Ophthalmia Neonatorum 3
(1 month and under)