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the Health Visitors are included attendance at Welfare Centres, Immunisation
and Vaccination Clinics, Home Visiting, giving advice on the
care of young children, and to expectant and nursing mothers, After
care, etc.
Domiciliary Midwifery.
Five full-time midwives are employed in the Urban District. The
services of the midwives are engaged direct by the patient or through
the patient's private doctor, and they act either as midwives or maternity
nurses.
Women's Welfare Clinics.
These clinics are held in various parts of the district and details
will be found under "Local Clinic Services." Patients attending these
clinics are seen by appointment, and are referred on medical grounds
only.
SERVICES RENDERED BY VOLUNTARY AGENCIES,
Orpington Old People's Welfare Committee.
Orpington and District Tuberculosis Care Committee.
The St. John Ambulance Brigade.
Over 60's Clubs.
These services continued with their most valuable work during the
year 1954.
Women's Voluntary Service.
The following information has been supplied by the County
Organiser: —
Meals on Wheels. During the first eleven months of the year,
3,873 meals were supplied to infirm and aged people in the area.
Darby and Joan Clubs. Several clubs in the area are run by the
W.V.S., and they provide the old people with the opportunity of meeting
friends and having tea together. At the same time the W.V.S.
members are able to find out if any help is required by the Club
members.
General.
Other services provided by the W.V.S. include the loan of wheel
chairs to old folk; provision of escorts for old people to or from hospital
or for other reasons; visiting old people at the request of relatives,
Doctors, Hospital Almoners, etc.; occupational therapy at Lubbock
House, Tubbenden Lane, one morning per week, and at Farnborough