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The following services are provided by the Kent
County Council: —
School Children's Clinics, and Dental Clinics, at
Hook Lane, Welling and Mayplace Road East,
Bexleyheath.
Tuberculosis Dispensaries.
At Overy Street, Dartford, and Bexley Road, Erith.
Venereal Diseases.
At the County Hospital, West Hill, Dartford.
PROFESSIONAL NURSING IN THE HOME.
Home nursing' is provided for by three Nursing
Associations in the area, namely: —
Bexleyheath Services of two whole time Nurses.
Bexley Services of one whole time Nurse.
Welling and
East Wickham Services of two whole time Nurses.
These are very useful services to the district, and
tlie untiring manner in which the Committees and
helpers of the Associations carried out their arduous
duties in this connection during the year is greatly
appreciated.
The nurses are again to be complimented on the
work that they have done in the homes of the patients.
LABORATORY FACILITIES.
Pathological and bacteriological work for the area is
carried out by the Kent County Council at the Public
Health Department, Sessions House, Maidstone, but aN
there is still too much reliance placed on swabs for the
diagnosis of diphtheria, the postal delav has raised the
question of providing a small laboratory for such purposes
at the Health Department here, and this matter is
still being considered in the five year programme
of development.
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