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Nursing' Facilities: Local District Nursing Associations.
Clinics and Treatment Centres: Maternity and Child Welfare
work is carried out by the Kent County Council.
Immunising' Clinic (against Diphtheria) held once a week at
the Council Offices.
Hospitals, Public and Voluntary:
Infectious Disease: West Kent Joint Isolation Hospital.
General Hospitals (Voluntary) : Sidcup Cottage Hospital
and Cray Valley Hospital.
Midwifery and Maternity Services: Under the control of the
Kent County Council.
Institutional Provision for Mothers or Children: Under Kent
County Council.
Health Visitors: One employed by District Council. Four
Health Visitors also employed by County Council.
Infant Life Protection (under Part I of Children Act. 1908,
as amended by Children and Young Persons Act, 1932):
Under control of the Kent County Council.
Orthopaedic Treatment: Under Kent County Council.
Nursing' Homes Registration: The Medical Officer of the Local
Supervising Authority is P. N. Cave, M. A., M. D., M. B. C. S.,
L.R.C.P., D.P.H.
Action Taken during the year, and the arrangements made for
the supervision of Maternity and Nursing Homes registered
under the Act: Routine inspection by Health Visitor, and
inspections by Medical Officer of Health as required.
HEALTH REPORT FOR 1938.
The Urban District of Chislehurst and Sidcup was constituted
under the Kent County Review Order, 1934, and came
into existence on the 1st April, 1934.
It comprises the former Urban District of Sidcup and the
former Urban District of Chislehurst with the exception of the
Pettswood area, South of the old Chatham and Dover railway
line (now part of the Southern Railway system), which was
transferred to the newly constituted Urban District of
Orpington.
Also included in the Urban District are the old Rural
Parishes of Mottingham, and North Cray, the greater part of
St. Paul's Cray, and a small portion of St. Mary Cray and
Orpington, all of which previously formed part of the Bromley
Rural District.
A small portion of the Borough of Bromley on the Western
boundary of Chislehurst was also transferred to the Chislehurst
and Sidcup Urban District.