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their health and well-being, they will, in increasing numbers, take advantage
of this scheme.
"The Nursery was open to visitors during Health Week in October, and
. many took advantage of the opportunity to become better acquainted with the
work carried on.
"The management of the Nursery is still in the capable hands of Miss
Biggs, who, together with the staff of nurses and probationers, has performed
the duties to the entire satisfaction of the Committee.
"At the request of the Clerk to the Council, the Treasurer furnished a
statement of expenditure at the Edmonton Day Nursery for comparison with
that of other institutions of the same nature, which showed that Edmonton
has by far the largest attendance, and while charging the mothers a lower rate
than any other, had very nearly the lowest expenditure per child, which shows
that the Institution is being efficiently and economically managed.
"The total expenditure at the Edmonton Day Nursery for the year ending
March 31st, 1926, was £930, towards which the mothers subscribed £220; the
Ministry of Health, £330 ; the Edmonton Education Committee, £50; and the
remainder, about £330, was subscribed by voluntary contributors."
Professional Nursing in the Home.
In 1921, the Council made an agreement with the Cottage Benefit Nursing
Association, of Dennison House, Vauxhall Bridge Road, S.E., whereby the
latter supplies, through its local branch at Bury House, the services of a fullytrained
nurse for general illnesses and those infectious illnesses, measles, etc.,
which are not usually received into an infectious fever Hospital.
The Council pay a retaining fee of £20 per annum, paid quarterly, and, in
addition, a fee for each visit by the nurse at the following rate: 1s. 0d. for
each of the first three visits and 6d. for each subsequent visit.
The school nurses pay visits to school children suffering from the nonnotifiable
infectious illnesses, provided early notice be given and that no doctor
is in attendance; their duties are threefold: to confirm the diagnosis, to insist
on isolation of the patient, and to suggest useful home remedies and those
measures which may prevent complications.