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Clinics and Treatment Centres. 15
except in so far as she may be engaged when a necessitous
case requires maternity aid, when usually the
midwife nearest the patient is chosen and paid the
fee by the Council. The supervision of the midwives
comes within the duties of the Middlesex County
Council.
Clinics and Treatment Centres.—The Maternity
and Child Welfare Centre, which is provided by the
Council and is situated conveniently in the centre of
the town at 13, Mattock Lane, consists of three
rooms, one being used as a waiting room, the second
as a health visitors' room and the third as a medical
officer's room. A fourth room on the same floor
can be used as an additional medical officer's room.
In the same building, but on the first and second
floors, is the School Clinic, maintained by the Ealing
Education Authority, in which are provided on the
first floor a waiting room, a treatment room, which
is also used as a school nurses' room, an operating
room, a recovery room, which is also used as an oculist's
room ; and on the second floor a second school nurses'
room, a clerks' room and a storeroom. In the basement
are the caretaker's quarters. A room on the ground
floor is used as the School Inspection Clinic and can be
be used, as already stated, as an additional medical
officer's room in connexion with the Maternity and
Child Welfare Centre.
The Day Nursery at 27, South Ealing Road was
discontinued temporarily on March 31st and permanently
at the end of September.
A Tuberculosis Dispensary is maintained by the
Middlesex County Council at Green Man Lane, West