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NURSING IN THE HOME.
There are two Associations in Enfield which provide nursing
for the sick poor of the District, namely:—
The Ponders End, Enfield Highway and District Nurse
Fund.
The Enfield District Nursing Association.
No financial provision has been paid to either Association by
the Local Authority. Application was received for a grant in the
early part of 1936 and the matter is now under consideration.
There are no permanent arrangements in the District for
nursing cases of infectious disease. In the past during times of
epidemics of Measles the Council has employed a temporary Nurse.
Owing to the fact that Measles is no longer notifiable, I have not had
as complete information as to the number of cases of Measles in the
District as heretofore, and no Nurse has been employed for the
nursing of these cases in recent years.
On the other hand, it must be remembered that the Isolation
Hospital now admits bad cases of Measles, or cases complicated by
other disease, or children suffering from this disease who cannot
be nursed satisfactorily at home.
AMBULANCE FACILITIES.
For Infectious Cases: two Motor Ambulances are stationed
at the Isolation Hospital for the removal of cases from the Enfield
and Edmonton Districts: 308 patients were removed from Enfield
during the year.
Two Ambulances are maintained by the Urban District Council
of Enfield, and are available for the removal of accident cases and
acute or urgent medical and surgical conditions requiring removal
to Hospital. Such cases are taken free of charge either to the North
Middlesex Hospital, Edmonton, the Prince of Wales' Hospital,
Tottenham, or the Enfield War Memorial Hospital. During 1935,
the Ambulances removed 3,953 patients.
St. John's Ambulance Brigade also maintained an Ambulance
during the early part of the year.
NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE.
None of the work of the Authority is related to or administered
by this service.