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They are provided chiefly by voluntary effort, and no grant is made by the Borough
Council. The work is valuable and an increase in the use of this accommodation is
desirable.
Name and Situation. Accommodation. Average daily attendance.
Somers Town Nursery School, 18, Crowndale Road 46 34
Jellicoe Nursery School, 6a, Rochford Street 53 45
Mary Ward Nursery School, 16, Burton Street 30 22
St. Christopher's Nursery School, Bridgeway Street 45 32
Buck Street Nursery School 40 31
Professional nursing in Necessitous Homes.
This is now provided by the staff of the three following District Nursing Associations:—
Hampstead, Metropolitan and North London. (For addresses see page 11.)
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 headquarters are at 31, Bedford Place, W.C.1, for the home nursing of cases of
Puerperal Fever and Puerperal Pyrexia.
Payment for this nursing is included in the following block grants made by the
Council: —
District Nursing Association.
Under the
Maternity and
Child Welfare
Scheme.
Under the
Influenzal
Pneumonia
Regulations.
Total
Block
Grant.
£
£
£
Hampstead
20
10
30
Metropolitan
187 10s.
62 10s.
250
North London
15
10
25
Totals
222 10s.
82 10s.
305
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.
Hampstead
45
826
18.3
Metropolitan
120
1925
16.2
North London
3
85
28.3
Totals
168
2836
16.8