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Bromley 1934

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bromley]

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1. Five full-time and one part-time Health Visitors
are employed half-time on school medical duties.
They attend the centres and carry out the
teaching of mothercraft in the homes.
2. Eight welfare sessions are held weekly, with a
doctor in attendance at six of these each week.
3. Ante-natal clinics are held three times per month.
4. Maternity Hospital provision for necessitous cases
—reservation of four beds.
5. Consulting Gynaecologist, whose services are
available for general obstetrics work.
f). Hospital treatment, isolation, and Consulting
Gynaecologist for Puerperal Fever and
Puerperal Pyrexia cases.
7. Dental treatment for expectant mothers, nursing
mothers, and children under five years of age.
8. Free milk for necessitous cases.
9. Home visiting of boarded-out children under the
Children and Young Persons Act, 1932.
10. Orthopspdic Treatment and Consulting Surgeon
for the crippled child.
11. Minor ailment treatment.
12. Ear, Nose and Throat Consultant and Surgeon.
Operative treatment at the School Clinic.
13. Ophthalmologist for defective vision.
14. Provision of hospital treatment for cases of
Ophthalmia Neonatorum, and for acute cases of
complicated measles.
15. Supervision of Midwives under the Midwives
Acts.
10. Registration and inspection of maternity homes
under the Nursing Homes Registration Act,
1927.
Child Welfare Centres.
Bromley Common—
St. Lukes' Institute,
Raglan Road Tuesdays, 2.30 p.m.
Fridays, 2.30 p.m.