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Facilities for the examination of cerebrospinal fluid in suspected cases of cerebrospinal
fever, etc., are available to the Medical Officer of Health through the London County Council
laboratory, and for the examination of the blood in suspected malaria through the Ministry
of Health.
The chemical work of the Public Analyst (Mr. J. Kear Colwell, F.I.C.) in connection
with the Sale of Food and Drugs Acts is referred to on page 72.
Section VII.—Other Services.
Cordial co-operation exists between the work of the Council and the voluntary agencies
performing work of public health and social importance. These agencies include the various
hospitals and dispensaries, the local District Nursing Associations, the Maternity Nursing
Association, the Invalid Children's Aid Association, the Charity Organisation Society, the
National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, the Invalid Kitchens, the
Mary Ward Settlement, Lyndhurst Hall, the Kentish Town Dining Room for Mothers, etc.
Voluntary agencies subsidized by the Council are referred to particularly in Section II. of this
Report (Maternity and Child Welfare).
Home Nursing.
As regards district nuising, the Borough comprises the whole of the district of the
Central St. Pancras District Nursing Association, and large portions of the districts of the
Metropolitan Nursing Association, the Hampstead District Nursing Association, and the
North London Nursing Association. The associations are paid by the Council or the
May< ress' Nursing Fund at the rate of Is. per visit for the nursing of cases of measles,
whooping cough, ophthalmia neonatorum, infantile diarrhoea, influenza and pneumonia, but
the bulk of their work is supported by voluntary funds. The home nursing is of very
great public health importance, and the need for its extension and support from public funds
is very great. The home nursing work done during 1920 in St. Pancras is indicated by the
following figures: —
No. of cases No. of home
nursed. visits paid.
Central St. Pancras District Nursing Association 842 8656
Metropolitan Nursing Association (St. Pancras cases) 384 7628
Hampstead District „ „ „ 274 2403
North London Nursing „ „ . 211 3769
Section VIII.—HOUSING.
In the following section are set out particulars in regard to housing asked for in the
Ministry of Health's Memorandum (9 Med.) and tabulated as required therein :—
I.—General Housing Conditions in the District.
(1) General Housing Conditions.—The outstanding feature of the housing conditions in
the district is the circumstance that, except for a limited number of blocks of selfcontained
flats, almost the only accommodation- available for the working classes is
the tenement house. Emphasis has been laid in many reports in the past on the
evils of tbis system of housing, and in last year's Annual Report the matter was
gone into at some length.