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Natural and Social Conditions. 15
A dozen private nursing homes supply not only the
needs of Ealing, but help to meet the demands of other
districts.
There are no real slums in the district, although there
are three islets of houses of a low standard, some of
which have been reduced by the occupiers to slum-like
conditions by over-crowding or mal-treatment.
The amount of Poor Law Relief distributed in the
area during the year, according to information received
from the Clerk to the Board of Guardians, was
£1,654 6s. 1d.
The Central Aid Society and the Ealing Philanthropic
Institution do good work in the district by rendering
assistance in many needy cases.
In the Annual Report for 1919 attention was drawn
to the need for a regular nursing service by which
nursing aid could be provided for the poorer inhabitants.
During the year under review steps were taken
to provide such a service. A Nursing Association
was formed and a District Nurse appointed, the intention
being to increase the nursing provision as funds allow.
One nurse is certainly not sufficient to meet the needs
of the whole district, but it is hoped that her appointment
will lead to an extension of the service in the
future, when the demands of the district can be accurately
gauged and when voluntary funds are available.
The Council maintains an ambulance, kindly placed
at their disposal by the Ambulance Committee of the
County of Middlesex Division, for the transport of sick
and injured persons to hospital or to private nursing