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St Pancras 1927
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]
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there were supplied in 1927, 83,672 pints of milk free and 10,668 pints at half-price, at a cost
to the Council of £1,273 0s. 9d., half of which sum is repayable by the Ministry of Health.
This figure does not include the cost of administration. Inquiries are made by the Women
Sanitary Inspectors and Health Visitors, if there is any doubt as to the circumstances of the
families.
The scale in use was based on weekly income, as follows:—
| Number in Family. | After deduction of rent. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free. | Half Cost. | |||||
| £ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. | |
| 1 | 13 | 0 | 15 | 0 | ||
| 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 |
| 3 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 10 | 0 |
| 4 | 1 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 14 | 0 |
| 5 | 1 | 12 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 6 | 1 | 16 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 0 |
Families in receipt of less income than that indicated in the table would be entitled to
receive milk. The working of the scheme has been fully indicated in previous annual reports
Public Health Officers of the Local Authority.
A complete list of these, including both whole and part-time officers, is given on
pages 6 and 7.
The undermentioned changes in the staff occurred during the year:—Dr. Margaret E.
Alden, Dr. Ruth Elliott and Dr. Jessie S. Muir resigned their appointments as Medical
Officers at the Council's Welfare Centres. The services of Dr. Kathleen Lander were no
longer required owing to a re-arrangement of Ante-Natal Consultations.
Dr. Helen Turover was appointed Medical Officer to the St. Pancras School for
Mothers, Ampthill Square.
Miss K. L. Allfrey, Superintendent Camden Road Centre, resigned, Miss M. Templeton
being appointed to fill the vacancy.
Mr. E. M. Dillon, Sanitary Inspector, was absent throughout the year owing to a
fractured leg. This officer has now been superannuated.
Miss C. Smith, Woman Sanitary Inspector and Health Visitor, died in December, 1927.
Professional Nursing in Necessitous Homes.
This is provided by the staff of the following District Nursing Associations:—
Central St. Pancras, Hampstead, Metropolitan, and North London.
The Borough includes the whole of the area of the Central St. Pancras District
Nursing Association and large portions of the areas of the other three Associations.
The Borough Council has an arrangement with all the above Associations for the Home
Nursing, at the request of the medical practitioner in attendance, of cases of Measles,
Whooping Cough, Ophthalmia Neonatorum, Infective Enteritis and Pneumonia. During the
year the Council made arrangements for the home nursing of Pemphigus Neonatorum, and in
connection with this a communication was received from the Minister of Health, stating that