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IV. CAUSES OF SICKNESS.
Apart from the prevalence of scarlet fever throughout
the year in all partis of the district, there was no prevailing
cause of sickness.
V. SUMMARY OF NURSING ARRANGEMENTS,
HOSPITALS, AND OTHER INSTITUTIONS AVAILABLE
FOR THE DISTRICT.
Professional Nursing in the Home.— (a) A District
Nurse is provided in Old Southgate by a local Committee,
" The Southgate Village Nurse Fund Committee," supported
entirely by voluntary subscriptions, and is not in
any way connected with the Local Authority except that in
her spare time she serves on the Maternity and Child Welfare
Committee, and acts as a voluntary helper at the
Southgate Centre. (b) No Nurse is provided for infectious
diseases, measles, etc., in the home.
Midwives.—These come under the supervision of the
County Authority. There are 7 midwives practising in the
district, though some evidently do very little. For a time,
until October last, the Local Authority employed a midwife
in Old Southgate to take the place of the deceased midwife
practising privately in that neighbourhood, when the work
was taken up privately again.
Welfare Centres and Clinics.
1. Maternity and Child Welfare Centres (consultations
only) :—
1. Southgate: Village Hall, High Street; small hall and
consulting room. Alternate Mondays, 2-4 p.m.
2. New Southgate : Baptist Hall, Grove Road ; large hall
and consulting room. Wednesdays, 2-4 p.m.
3. Winchmore Hill: Wesleyan Hall, Green Lanes; large
hall and consulting room. Thursdays, 2-4 p.m.