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Domestic Help Service.
Applications for this service continue to be heavy, especially for
old people and cases of illness in the home.

Home Nursing Service.
Five Home Nurses and 4 Home Nurse/Midwives are engaged in
the area. A day service only is provided at the present time, and may
be obtained on medical certification.
Health Visiting.
There are 8 Health Visitors/School Nurses, one full-time school
nurse, and one Tuberculosis Health Visitor employed in the area. In
addition to their school work, Health Visitors are responsible for
Maternity and Child Welfare Centres, Immunisation and Vaccination
Clinics, Home Visiting, After Care, and give advice on the care of
young children, and advice to expectant and nursing mothers.
Women's Welfare Clinics.
See "Local Clinic Services," for details.
Services rendered by Voluntary Agencies.
The St. John Ambulance Brigade.
Over 60's Clubs.
These have been fully reported upon in previous years, and have
continued their most valuable work during 1955.
Women's Voluntary Services.
The following information has been supplied by the County
Organiser:—
Escorts. At the request of Almoners of Orpington and Farnborough
Hospitals, also the Hospital Transport Officer, 41 old people
were escorted by car. A request was also received to take an elderly
woman, on three occasions, to visit her husband who was in a London
Hospital.
Some of this work is in the nature of psychiatric treatment, some
to visit sick relatives, as well as conveying old people for special
treatment. In every case the hospital or the passenger pays for petrol
only—the members never charge a mileage rate.