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Cancer 21
Hemiplegia 25
Tracheotomy (Cancer) 1
Cardiac 20
(It is interesting to note that the number of patients over
70 years of age was 128, or nearly 20 per cent. of the total cases
nursed.)
Membership and Finance. — The subscribing donors and
members numbered 3,049 on the 31st March, the end of the Association's
financial year. Three hundred and one subscribers have
been added since that date, but through removals, deaths and
non-renewal of subscriptions, the membership on the 31st December
stands at 2,958. The financial position of the Association is
nevertheless satisfactory; the increase in non-members' fees is
more than double the amount of the decrease of £58 in membership
subscriptions. The total receipts for the year amount to
£1,414 15s. 5d. The expenses of the Association are assured to
the 31st March next on the income for its financial year. The
reserve of £484 at the end of March, 1928, will be available again
to finance the Association until the bulk of subscriptions become
renewable in July, 1929."
The Hornsey Deanery Association for Preventive and Rescue
Work at 109, Upper Tollington Park, receives unmarried mothers
and their babies. A grant of £50 was made by the Council during
the year, and the Association also receives a grant from the
Ministry of Health. The Institute has accommodation for five
unmarried mothers and their children, and for five expectant
mothers. Babies are usually kept until four months old. The
housework is done by the expectant and nursing mothers. The
women are confined as a rule in Queen Charlotte's, the City of
London or the Royal Free Hospital, while a few are sent to the
North Middlesex Hospital. During the year a branch establishment
has been opened at 79, Crouch End Hill, with accommodation
for 12 nursing or expectant mothers and for "toddlers" as
well as for babies.
Hospitals.—The North Middlesex Hospital (Edmonton House)
has increased its accommodation during the year by 50 beds and
can now take 1,000 in-patients. The number of Hornsey cases
admitted during the year was 832, viz., 146 maternity cases and
686 other cases. Twenty-eight of the maternity cases were
mothers attending the Council's Welfare Centres.