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Nursing in the home continued to be efficiently provided by
the Wembley and Kingsbury District Nursing Associations in
which Associations the Council have been very actively interested
and have given substantial grants:—
£ s. d.
To the Wembley District Nursing
Association 1,342 3 10
To the Kingsbury District Nursing
Association 805 6 3
The Mortuary at St. John's Churchyard has for some time
been inadequate and in their post-war planning the Council have
in mind a new Mortuary on a site adjacent to the New Burial
Ground in Watford Road.
C. Many further duties and responsibilities fell upon the
Department with the delegation under the Education Act, 1944,
and the Maternity and Child Welfare Services and the School
Health Services are now co-ordinated throughout, the same
officers being responsible for personal health and welfare services
at the Ante-Natal Clinics in the Maternity and Child
Welfare Service to the health and welfare of children during
school life in the School Health Service. Throughout these two
services the essential priority is health education. Medical
Officers and Health Visitors have attended appropriate refresher
courses, Student Health Visitors have received training in the
Borough during their course at the Royal College of Nursing, the
magazine "Better Health" has been put on sale (price 2d.
monthly) at the Clinics. The approval of the Minister of Health
was obtained making the provision of dental treatment (apart
from artificial dentures), spectacles, orthopaedic appliances and
orthopaedic hospital treatment free for Maternity and Child
Welfare cases as they became free for school-children under the
Education Act, 1944.
There are now 17 Health Visitor Areas in the Borough, all
Health Visitors acting also as School Nurses and their services
are co-ordinated administratively by 'the Superintendent Health
Visitor. An experiment in de-centralisation of a number of the
Health Visitors from the Public Health Department to the
peripheral Clinics is now being tested by 'the Maternity and Child
Welfare Committee and so far the re-arrangement is proving
most useful, giving the public immediate access to any service
required. The appreciation of and value to the public of the
various Clinic services continued to be patent, for example, 64%
of 'the women attending the Ante-Natal Clinics commenced their
attendances by the third month of pregnancy, while the other
figures in the appendix prove the same acceptance,
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