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winter weather or if the central heating fails from any cause.
There is also a hot water supply for the wash-hand basins available
for patients and staff. The pipes for the heating and for the hot
water services are hidden in channels under the floors where there
are trap doors for access.
From this description it will be recognised that the labour
needed in cleaning the Centre will be reduced to a minimum. In
this respect an object lesson will be provided for the mothers
attending the Centre.
All the activities in connection with maternity and child
welfare (including ante-natal and child consultations) and medical
inspection and treatment of school children in the Greenford area
will be carried on in the Ravenor Park Health Centre as a separate
unit with supervision from headquarters. The only forms of
treatment which are centralized at the Mattock Lane Centre are
orthopaedic treatment, for which a separate building has recently
been erected, and operations for enlarged tonsils and adenoids.
Professional Nursing in the Home.
(1) General.—The Greater Ealing Nursing Association continues
to perform most valuable work in meeting the need for sick nursing
in the homes of the people. The five nurses on the staff made
15,988 visits, and nursed 637 patients during the year. The
Northolt Nursing Association provides a nurse for sick nursing in
that area.
(2) Infectious Diseases.—In return for contributions from the
Town Council the two Nursing Associations provide nursing assistance
where required for children under five years of age suffering
from ophthalmia neonatorum, measles, whooping cough, poliomyelitis
and diarrhoea. The attendance of the district nurses at the
Health Centres to assist in the weighing of children facilitates the
co-operation that is so essential between the District Nursing
Service and the Maternity and Child Welfare Service.