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CO-ORDINATION.
Every effort has been made to secure complete co-operation
between the Maternity and Child Welfare and the School Medical
Sen-ices. Both these services have for their object the proper
nurture of the children and the preservation of their health. In a
well organised scheme of public health administration there should
be no line of division between them.
Although the one service is under the control of the Maternity
and Child Welfare Committee and the other under the Education
Committee, in Ealing the policy of these two Committees is the
same and the staff carrying out the executive duties are under the
same administration. In fact, if both these services were placed
under the control of only one Committee it would make little if any
difference. Whatever facilities for supervision and treatment are
offered to children attending school the same are offered to children
under school age.
Co-ordination is also rendered easy by these two services being
carried on together at the Health Centres. There are four Health
Centres in the Borough for Maternity and Child Welfare and School
Medical purposes, one at Mattock Lane, one at Cherington House,
Hanwell, a temporary Centre at Greenford, to be replaced by a
new Centre (Ravenor Park) in course of erection and Islips Manor
Health Centre which has just been opened. The last named
Centre, which is to serve the Northolt area, has been formed by the
adaptation of the house, Islips Manor, which stands within the
twelve acres of land purchased by the Town Council as a public
recreation ground. The house has lent itself admirably to adaptation
as a Health Centre and should prove not inferior but in
many ways superior in arrangement to the other Health Centres
of the Borough.