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Hon. Area Secretaries:
Mrs. Dixon Miss A. Lacey, M.B.E. Mrs. Noton
Mrs. Sedorski Mr. J. Walters
Superintendent: Miss Ivett
The Hornsey Nursing Association provides fully-trained
visiting nurses for the care of medical and surgical cases of all
kinds in their own homes. There has been such a steady increase
from year to year in the demand for this service that the staff
now number nine, in addition to the Superintendent. These
nurses paid over thirteen thousand visits in the course of the year
to 728 cases, many of which would have had to go to Hospital
if skilled attention were not available at home. This is true
economy—for there is no relation between the modest cost of a
visiting nurse in the home and the ever-mounting cost of a
hospital bed.
New Headquarters.—The large house standing in its
own grounds at 32. Haringey Park. N.8, close to the Town Hall,
has been purchased as a residence for the staff and headquarters
of the Association. It is at present undergoing reconstruction
and extension to provide bed-sitting-rooms for the fourteen nurses
which, it is anticipated, will be required when the service is fully
developed in the Borough. When reconstruction is complete the
Association, with the approval of the Queen's Institute of District
Nursing, will take candidates for training, i.e., hospital-trained
nurses who wish to do six months' district nursing to qualify as
Queen's Nurses. These trainees will be under contract to give
eighteen months' service to the Association.
In view of the purchase by the Nursing Association of
premises, 32, Haringey Park, for the establishment of a Nurses'
Home, the sum of £50 subscribed to the Association by the
Council was increased to £100.
I know of no organisation working for health in the Borough
which is more deserving of supporT than the Hornsey Nursing
Association.