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Willesden 1930
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Willesden]
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SUMMARY OF NURSING ARRANGEMENTS, HOSPITALS AND OTHER INSTITUTIONS.
AVAILABLE FOR THE DISTRICT.
Nursing in the Home.
(a) General—
(i.) The Willesden District Council employs one fully trained Hospital Nurse. She visits
in the homes once or twice daily as necessary primarily to nurse grant earning cases
under the Maternity and Child Welfare regulations.
[Grant-earning cases are : Nursing of expectant mothers, maternity nursing, nursing of puerperal
fever, puerperal pyrexia, measles in young children, whooping cough in young children,
epidemic diarrhcea in young children and ophthalmia neonatorum.]
The Nurse is provided on application to the Matron, Municipal Centre (1), 9,
Willesden Lane, Kilburn, N.W. 6; or to the Matron, Municipal Centre (2), 381, High
Road, Willesden, N.W. 10, or to the Matron, Municipal Centre 3, Harrow Road, Stonebridge,
N.W. 10. The Council's Nurse acts under the direction of the Medical
Practitioner in attendance upon the case.
(ii.) Willesden District Nursing Association (in affiliation with the Queen Victoria's Jubilee
Institute for Nurses) was established in October, 1926, for the purpose of providing
visiting nurses for the sick and infirm in all classes of the community. The address of
the Association is 19, Park Avenue, N.W. 2.
(iii.) District Nurses are also at work in connection with Nursing Associations, Churches,
Missions, etc.
(b) For infectious diseases, e.g., Measles, etc.—
Carried out by the Council's Home Nurse as above, and by the Willesden District Nursing
Association, to which the Council made a grant of £52 10s. in 1930 in respect of this work.
Midwives—Employment of, or subsidy to, practising Midwives, by Public Health Authority.
The Council pays the fees of Midwives in home confinement cases where the economic
circumstances of the patient are below the Council's scale. The fee agreed with the North West
Middlesex Midwives' Association is £1 lis. 6d., but for a first confinement, £2 2s.
In accordance with Section 10 of the Midwive's Act, 1902, 32 Midwives gave notice in the
month of January, 1931, of their intention to practise in Willesden.
CLINICS AND TREATMENT CENTRES.
| Name. | Situation. | Nature of Accommodation. | By whom provided. | Work Undertaken. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Municipal Centre (1) | 9, Willesden Lane, Kilburn, N.W. 6 | Two houses adapted and equipped for undertaking the care and supervision of the expectant and nursing mother and child up to school leaving age | Willesden Urban District Council | Maternity and Child Welfare and School Work-—Medical and Dental— Schools for Mothers Artificial Sun- |
| Municipal Centre (2) | 381, High Road, Willesden, N.W. 10 | Ditto | Ditto | > light Clinic at Centres (1) and (3), Orthopaedic Clinic at Centre (3), Cancer Clinics at Centres (1) and (2) |
| Municipal Centre (3) | Harrow Road, Stonebridge, N.W. 10 | Health Centre specially designed, built and equipped for Modern Health work | Ditto | Diphtheria Immunisation J at Centre (1). |
| Health Department | 54, Winchester Avenue, N.W. 6 | Suitably equipped Medical Officer's room | Ditto | Examination of abnorma 1 children |
| Tuberculosis Dispensary | Pound Lane, Willesden, N.W. 10 | — | Middlesex County Council | Tuberculosis Dispensary. |