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tions at Wembley Hospital, Redhill and Central Middlesex County
Hospitals—Home Helps—Specialist Med.ical Services, Gynascological
and Post-Natal Clinics, Birth Control Sessions for married
women requiring birth control advice for medical reasons,
ophthalmic cases, orthopaedic cases, child guidance cases, speech
difficulty cases referred to Education Authority's Special Clinics
—Clinic for children showing deafness or defective speech from
deafness, or allergic asthma, etc., conditions, at Metropolitan Ear,
Nose and Throat Hospital — Economic Circumstances Scale
(revised January, 1947) according to which Milk and Accessory
Foods, Artificial Dentures, Convalescent Treatment, Maternity
Outfits, and Home and Domestic Helps available, scale depending
on number in family and net income per head of family—Nursery
Service 368 places, Nurseries open daily, Monday to Saturday,
opening and closing times as demand requires, daily charge 1/per
child, inclusive of all food given (morning lunch, midday
dinner, and tea), Medical Officers attend the Nurseries regularly
and all the Services of the Clinics available for children.
2. DEVELOPMENT 10 YEARS, 1936-1946, (a) New services
provided—Premature infant scheme, Adoption of Children
(Regulation) Act, 1939, Toddler Clinics, Diphtheria Immunisation
Sessions, test feeding scales on loan, coupons re sheets in home
confinements, panel of Consultants for abnormal confinements,
Emergency Maternijty Unit, blood examinations at Ante-Natal
Clinics, Scheme for Unmarried Mothers, Home Helps, Specialist
Clinics, Day Nursery Services; (b) Expansion of existing services—5
new Health Clinic premises, 2 Clinic premises of
Middlesex County Council now administered by the Borough—