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the Nursing Association, notified cases of pneumonia are visited by
the District Nurses, and nursing assistance is supplied whenever
asked for.
Midwives.
No midwives are employed by the Council, and during the
year the payment of a subsidy to a midwife resident in the Borough
was discontinued. During the year 9 midwives residing in the
Borough notified their intention to practise.
MATERNITY AND NURSING HOMES.
There were two Maternity Nursing Homes in the Borough
during 1934 registered by the Middlesex County Council.
Supervision of the Nursing Homes and of the midwives
practising in the Borough is in the hands of the County Council.
HOSPITALS.
1. Fever.
Wood Green is one of four authorities (Hornsey, Finchley,
Wood Green and Friern Barnet) which together own and control
the Joint Isolation Hospital, Coppetts Road, M us well Hill.
The Hospital is a good one, with an excellent modern
observation block, built on the cubicle system, and has accommodation
for one hundred and thirty patients.
The cases admitted are for the most part those of scarlet fever
and diphtheria, but in case of need acommodation is also available
for most other infectious diseases, except smallpox, puerperal fever
and ophthalmia neonatorum, for which other provision has been
made.
2. Smallpox.
The Middlesex County Council is responsible for the provision
of isolation accommodation for cases of smallpox occurring in this
Borough. The accommodation is provided by arrangement between
the Middlesex and London County Councils at one of the London
County Council Smallpox Hospitals.