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"Clerical Staff.—On the occasion of the transfer of officers
on the 1st October, Miss Rivers, who was formerly typist and clerical
assistant to the Clerk to the Hanwell Urban District Council, was
assigned to my Department to perform duties connected with
school medical and maternity and child welfare work. At the end
of this month she will go to the Mattock Lane School Clinic and
Welfare Centre for experience of both classes of work and will later
take up her duties at the Cherington Road Clinic and Welfare Centre,
half of her time being devoted to school medical and half to maternity
and child welfare work, her salary being paid in equal proportions
by the Education Committee and the Maternity and Child Welfare
Committee.
"District Nursing.—District Nursing is intimately associated
with maternity and child welfare work. In Hanwell the Council
made a yearly contribution towards the Hanwell District Nursing
Association for certain services rendered by the District Nurse.
These included the attendance of the nurse at the Welfare Centre
on two afternoons each week and the nursing of cases of measles,
whooping cough, epidemic diarrhoea, poliomyelitis, ophthalmia
neonatorum, puerperal sepsis, etc., when her services were required.
Naturally the Ealing and Hanwell Nursing Associations should now
amalgamate, and I recommend that the Town Council make a
sufficient contribution to the funds of the enlarged Nursing Association
to enable the nurses to be placed at the disposal of the Council
in rendering assistance at the Welfare Centres and in nursing cases
of measles, whooping cough, ophthalmia neonatorum, etc., in the
whole of the extended Borough. The Hanwell Council contributed
£75 per annum to the funds of the Hanwell Nursing Association
and I recommend that the Town Council contribute £150 towards
the larger Nursing Association.
"Day Nursery.—The Day Nursery has accommodation for
24 children. The admission of children should be restricted to
the children of widows or unmarried mothers or the children of
women who have to go out to work because their husbands are
unable to work or to obtain work. If the Day Nursery is to be
continued certain alterations will be required but these can be
deferred until a later date when a special report will be submitted.