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* Home Nursing (Section 25)
* Vaccination and Immunisation (Section 26)
* Chiropody Service (Section 28)
* Domestic Help (Section 29)
School Health Services and Dental Services
(Provided under Education Act, 1944, the
Borough of Hendon being an Excepted District).
* These services are administered on an area basis, Area 4 consisting of the Boroughs of
Hendon and Finchley. The Area Health Committee acts as a Sub-Committee of the Health
Committee of the County Council and consists of representatives of the two Boroughs,
Middlesex County Council, certain professional bodies and other persons with special
knowledge of these services.
MEDICAL PRACTITIONER SERVICE AND
CLASSIFICATION OF AREAS
The Middlesex Executive Committee has classified the different wards of the
Borough into three categories,
(1) Open Areas - Burnt Oak, Central, Childs Hill, Mill Hill and West Hendon.
Applications from doctors to enter practice in areas classified as Designated
or Open will be granted automatically on the completion of their arrangements.
(2) Intermediate Areas - Edgware and Park.
In these areas the number of patients on the average general practitioner's
list is reasonable. New practices may be established in such areas but the initial
practice allowance is not likely to be paid.
(3) Restricted Areas - Garden Suburb and Golders Green.
These are areas in which the numbers of doctors is adequate. Normally
applications by doctors to start new practices is not granted.
LABORATORY FACILITIES
These are provided at the Central Public Health Laboratory, Colindale.
Specimens may be sent direct to the laboratory by medical practitioners or by
special collection from the Public Health Department provided they are received
not later than 3.30 p.m. Monday to Friday.
I would like to express my appreciation of the work carried out by the staff
at the Laboratory who, during the course of the year, have given considerable
advice and help to the Public Health Department.
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