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required for seeing to the health of expectant or nursing
mothers, and children under the age of five years who are
not being educated in schools recognised by the Board of
Education, on a certificate signed by the Medical Officer of
Health or by one of the Medical Officers of the Health Department
or School Medical Department.
2. The Associations submit their Annual Reports to the
Council.
3. The Associations submit such statistics quarterly to the
Health Committee of the Council or the Medical Officer of
Health, as may be required, including the number of children
under five years of age and the number of expectant and
nursing mothers who have been nursed, and the conditions
for which they have been nursed.
4. The Health Committee of the Council are allowed to
nominate one of its members to serve on the Executive
Committee of each Association, and that the Medical Officer
of Health or one of the Medical Officers of the Health Department
or School Medical Department shall be an ex-officio
member of the Executive Committee of each Association.
There are no permanent arrangements in the District for the
domiciliary nursing of cases of infectious disease.
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: 261 patients were removed from Enfield
during the year.
Three 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 1938,
the Ambulances removed 3,257 patients.
NATIONAL HEALTH INSURANCE.
None of the work of the Authority is related to or administered
by this service.