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SECTION B. — HEALTH SERVICES.
Nursing in the Home. There are three Associations carrying
on this work in the area, all affiliated to the County Nursing
Association, the County Council now being responsible for this
service. Details of the work carried out by these Associations
during 1949 are as follows:—
(1) The Merton District Nursing Association employs one
nurse for general nursing, no midwifery or maternity nursing being
und.ertaken. The district this Association serves is approximately
the ecclesiastical parish of St. Mary's. A total of 452
cases involving 2,456 visits were attended during the year and of
these 11 cases were children under 5 years of age, to whom
71 visits were made.
(2) The St. Helier District Nursing Association employs one
full-time and two part-time nurses for general nursing. No midwifery
or maternity nursing is undertaken. Its activities cover
the whole of the Merton and Morden portion of the St. Helier
Estate and, in addition, that part situated in the Carshalton
Urban District lying to the north of Reigate Avenue.
During the year 230 cases were dealt with by the St. Helier
District Nursing Association, 24 of these being children under 5
years of age. The total number of visits made was 4,281, of
which 110 were in respect of children under 5 years.
(3) The Wimbledon District Nursing Association serves
Wimbledon and the western part of this district. Two full-time
nurses and two part-time nurses are employed for general nursing
in Merton and Morden.

Hospital Car Service. This most valuable service was continued
during the year, relieving the ambulances of a great
burden of calls by providing transport for out-patients requiring
hospital treatment. The service, under the auspices of the
British Red Cross and St. John Ambulance Brigade, is conducted
on a voluntary basis by public-spirited persons who put themselves
and their vehicles at the disposal of the organisation. A
charge of 6d. per mile is made to cover partly the actual
running cost.
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