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Ambulance Service.
This district is served by a normal complement of four ambulances
and two sitting case vehicles, which are stationed at Hornchurch. Two
ambulances and two sitting case vehicles are fitted with radio-telephony
sets. A day and night service is maintained.
Under the re-organisation of the County Ambulance Service a new
Divisional Control Centre and twenty-vehicle Ambulance Station has
been established at Aldborough Road, llford, together with a twentyvehicle
Ambulance Station at Goresbrook Road, Dagenham. A similar
Station is planned to serve the Romford/Hornchurch area.
During the year radio telephony was introduced to the Service
operating in the Metropolitan part of Essex, the main transmitter/
receiver in this area being situated at Lambourne End and remotely
controlled from Uford. Forty ambulance vehicles have been equipped
with radio-telephony sets.
All emergency telephone calls originating in the area are connected
direct to the Divisional Control at llford and the nearest available
ambulance is directed to the scene of the incident by private telephone
which is connected to each Ambulance Station or by radio telephone.
Maternity and Child Welfare.
The Essex County maintained clinics at the following centres
throughout the ye(i) Abbs Cross Lane, Hornchurch.
(ii) Athelstan Road, Harold Wood.
(iii) Front Lane, Cranham.
(iv) Hornchurch Road, Hornchurch.
(v) St. Mary's Lane, Upminster.
(vi) South End Road, South Hornchurch.
(vii) Upminster Road, Rainham.
(viii) Westland Avenue, Hornchurch.
Nursing and Maternity Homes.
The three registered Nursing and Maternity Homes in the district
are supervised by the County Council.
Midwives and Home Nurses.
There are 11 midwives and 5 home nurse /midwives in the district
who were appointed by the Essex County Council and are available to
act in the capacity of midwife and of maternity nurse under the supervision
of a registered medical practitioner.
In addition to the home nurse/midwives there are 7 home nurses
working in the district.
Care of the Aged.
There is little new to be said on this topic since the essence of the
subject remains the same. It is basically a matter for team work and
in this team the District Public Health Inspector plays no inconsiderable
part. It must be a matter of common knowledge to those really informed