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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
Brentford and Chiswick 1956
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Brentford and Chiswick]
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Chiswick:-
Ante-Natal Clinics and Tuesday and Thursday mornings
Post-Natal Clinics 9.30 a.m. to 12 noon
Infant Welfare Clinics Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
afternoons 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Diphtheria and Whooping
Cough Immunisation and Monday afternoons 2 p.m. to 4.30 p.m.
Vaccination Clinics
Priority Dental Service for expectant and nursing mothers and children
under school age.
(b) Health Visitors:
Health Visitors are employed to undertake home visiting for the purpose
of giving advice on the care of young children, to persons suffering from illness,
to expectant and nursing mothers and on the measures necessary to prevent
the spread of infection, (The Health Visitors also act as School Nurses).
(c) Home Nursing and Nursing Equipment:
Home Nurses are employed to undertake the nursing of persons in their own
homes. (This work was formerly undertaken by "District Nurses"), Where nursing
equipment is required for use in the home, it is available on loan through the
British Red Cross Society,
Number and classification of patients visited by the Home Nurses in the Borough during the year are as follows:-
| Type of case | Under 5 years | 5 - 64 years | 65 years and over | Total | Grand Total | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M | F | M | F | M | F | M | F | ||
| Medical | 5 | 10 | 142 | 254 | 188 | 353 | 335 | 617 | 952 |
| Surgical | 5 | 1 | 9 | 25 | 18 | 13 | 32 | 39 | 71 |
| Infectious Disease | - | - | - | 3 | - | - | - | 3 | 3 |
| Tuberculosis | - | - | 21 | 26 | 1 | - | 22 | 26 | 48 |
| Maternal Complications | - | - | - | 7 | - | - | - | 7 | 7 |
| Others | - | 1 | - | - | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| TOTALS | 10 | 12 | 172 | 315 | 208 | 367 | 390 | 694 | 1,084 |