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streptococci at Queen Charlotte's Hospital, address, Ravenscourt
Square, W.6. Telephone: Riverside 6081. Swabs, sputum containers,
etc. for all of above available at Public Health Department.
MATERNITY SERVICES— Ante-Natal— Council's consultant
obstetrician may be called by private practitioner in a case
of doubt or difficulty during ante-natal period if patient too ill to
attend a hospital. Communicate direct with Dr. J. W. Rait Bell,
address, "Old Court," Hanger Lane, Ealing, W.5. Telephone:
Perivale 1500. (Please inform M.O.H. as soon as conveniently
possible). Confinement & Lying-in—Dr. Bell may be called in
by the family doctor. Communicate direct with Dr. Bell, address
and telephone number as above. (Please inform M.O.H. as soon
as conveniently possible). In any case of grave emergency for
whom removal to hospital seems undesirable, e.g. shock,
eclampsia or haemorrhage, a nurse is also available by the
doctor applying direct to the Wembley or Kingsbury District
Nursing Association, addresses— Wembley— 80 Wembley Park
Drive. Telephone: Wembley 4913. Kingsbury— 77 Boycroft
Avenue, N.W.9. Telephone: Colindale 6445. (Please inform
M.O.H. as soon as conveniently possible). Re. any Puerperal
infection see in addition under Laboratory Services, Hospitals
and Infectious Diseases.
NERVOUS DISEASES— re. epidemic nervous diseases, e.g.
Cerebrospinal Fever, Acute Poliomyelitis, Encephalitis Lethargica—
see under Infectious Diseases.
NOTIFIABLE DISEASES— See under Infectious Diseases.
OPHTHALMIA NEONATORUM—see under Hospitals, Infectious
Diseases and Laboratory Services.
PUERPERAL PYREXIA— see under Hospitals, Infectious
Diseases and Laboratory Services.
SMALL-POX— For Small-pox or suspicion of, please communicate
at once with M.O.H. as special responsibilities fall upon
him immediately.
SUB-NUTRITION— For expectant or nursing mothers and
for cnildren under five years not attending Education Authority
school, free milk (pasteurised) and dried milk foods, cod liver
oil, etc., are granted at the Council's clinics according to an
economic circumstances scale. Further particulars from Public
Health Department.
TUBERCULOSIS— Dispensary and Sanatorium or Hospital
treatment— Middlesex County Council service. Apply, Tuberculosis
Officer, Dr. O. Bruce, address, Pound Lane, Willesden.
Telephone : Willesden 6254. Dispensary sessions— Monday,
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