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NURSING IN THE HOME.
(a) General. — General, medical and surgical nursing at
home is provided throughout the Borough by the Hornsey
Nursing Association, which has a staff of five nurses, and a
Superintendent Nurse.
(b) Infectious Diseases.—Nursing of infectious diseases at
home (measles and whooping-cough), and of tonsils and adenoids
operations at week-ends, is undertaken for the Council by the
Hornsey Nursing Association in return for a grant of 25 guineas
per annum.
MIDWIVES.
The Council employs one midwife, who attended 136 confinements
during the year. The number of midwives practising
privately in the area is 18.
MATERNITY AND NURSING HOMES.
The Local Supervising Authority in Hornsey under the
Nursing Homes Registration Act is the Middlesex County
Council. There are 23 registered nursing homes in the Borough,
10 of which receive maternity cases.
MATERNAL MORTALITY.
There are no special arrangements made for the investigation
of maternal deaths. Arrangements have been made for
consultants and for hospital treatment in cases of puerperal fever
and puerperal pyrexia on request of the doctor in attendance.
SANITARY CIRCUMSTANCES OF THE AREA.
Water.—The Metropolitan Water Board supplies the entire
area with a water supply satisfactory in quantity and quality.
Rivers and Streams.—A complaint was received during the
year of pollution of the Moselle Brook. The matter has been
the subject of thorough investigation by the sanitary inspectors,
in the course of which certain drainage defects were found and
remedied.
Drainage, Sewerage, Refuse Disposal.—There were no
important alterations of, or extensions to, the drainage or sewerage
in the area during the year, or in the methods of refuse collection
or disposal.