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St Pancras 1932
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for St. Pancras, Metropolitan Borough]
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The present revised income scale is shown hereunder:—
The present revised income scale is shown hereunder:-
| Number in Family. | After Deduction of Rent. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free. | Half-price. | |||||
| £ | s. | d. | £ | 8. | d. | |
| One | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 9 |
| Two | 0 | 18 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| Three | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 6 |
| Four | 1 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 11 | 3 |
| Five | 1 | 10 | 0 | 1 | 16 | 6 |
| Six | 1 | 13 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| Seven | 1 | 16 | 6 | 2 | 5 | 9 |
| Eight | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 3 |
Families in receipt of less income than that indicated in the table would be entitled to
receive milk. Where any doubt exists as to the true circumstances of the family, enquiries
are made by the Health Visitors attached to the various Welfare Centres.
Professional Nursing in Necessitous Homes.
This is now provided by the staff of the three following District Nursing Associations : —
Hampstead, Metropolitan and North London.
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, Pemphigus Neonatorum, Infective Enteritis,
Acute Primary and Acute Influenzal Pneumonia.
Arrangements are also in force with the Metropolitan District Nursing Association, whose
local headquarters are at 14, Oakley Square, for the home nursing of cases of Puerperal Fever
and Puerperal Pyrexia. Payment by a block grant is made by the Council.
The following table gives the number of cases and number of visits during the past year:—
| District Nursing Association. | No. of cases. | No. of visits. | Average No. of visits per case. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Metropolitan | 158 | 2621 | 16.6 |
| Hampstead | 32 | 634 | 19.8 |
| North London | 5 | 107 | 21.4 |
| Total | 195 | 3362 | 17.2 |
The Borough Council also remunerated the Hornsey District Nursing Association for
53 visits to one case of Ophthalmia Neonatorum.