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SECTION B
GENERAL PROVISION OF HEALTH SERVICES
FOR THE AREA
1. Public Health Officers
One part-time Medical Officer of Health.
One whole-time Sanitary Inspector and Meat and Food Inspector.
2. (a) Laboratory Facilities
Examination of sputum is carried out at the Herts County
Council laboratory. Swabs are examined by the Clinical Research
Association. No changes have been made in these
services since before the outbreak of war.
(b) Ambulance Facilities
Cases of infectious diseases are conveyed by the Joint Isolation
Hospital Ambulance. Non-infectious cases, prior to the
war, were conveyed by the Barnet Ambulance. Since the
outbreak of war, however, the Council has purchased two
private cars and one van, which have been converted into
emergency ambulances for Civil Defence purposes. A staff
of nine drivers and nine attendants (working eight-hour shifts),
together with a number of part-time volunteers, are engaged
on ambulance services, under the supervision of the Sanitary
Inspector (as Ambulance Officer). One of these ambulances is
occasionally called into use for street and other accidents, so
that the Barnet Ambulance has been relieved, to some extent,
of its work in this area. When it has been found necessary to
call upon the Barnet Ambulance, the request has been promptly
met and arrangements have proved adequate and smoothworking.
(c) Nursing in the Home
There are Nursing Associations in Elstree, Boreham Wood,
Shenley and Ridge, supplying three whole-time nurses who
work under the Herts County Council. There is no special
nursing for infectious diseases.