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Section B—Health Services.
Nursing in the Home.
Home nursing is provided by two associations to whose funds the
Council made an annual grant until the 5tli July, when arrangements
for home nursing became the responsibility of the County Council.
The Carshalton District Nursing Association covers the greater
part of the urban district, i.e., all but that portion of the St. Helier
Estate, lying to the north of the Sutton by-pass. The nursing staff
consists of eight, four of whom are midwives.

That portion of the St. Helier Estate in Carshalton, lying to the
north of the Sutton by-pass is served by the St. Helier District Nursing
Association, whose activities cover the Morden section of the St. Helier
Estate. One nurse is employed for general nursing and no midwifery
is undertaken. The nursing carried out in the Carshalton district bv
The nurses of both Associations attend the Council's Clinics.
Laboratory Facilities.
The facilities in use were the same as in the year before, namely :—
Clinical material in connection with infectious disease,
puerperal pyrexia and tuberculosis was submitted for examination
to the Emergency Public Health Laboratory, St. Helier Hospital,
the Sutton and Cheam Hospital Laboratory, and in special
circumstances to the Epsom Public Health Laboratory.
Food and Drugs and water samples were examined by Mr.
D. D. Moir, the Council's Public Analyst, whose laboratory is at
16, Southwark Street, London, S.E.I.
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