Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Bromley]
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Clinics.
The School Clinic, Station Road, was opened in 1928,
and makes provision for the following treatments and
services, details of which are dealt with in the Maternity
and Child Welfare and School Medical sections of this
report:—
1. Minor Ailment Treatments.
2. Tonsil and Adenoid Clinic.
3. Eye Clinic.
4. Orthopaedic Clinic.
5. Massage and Remedial Exercises Clinic.
6. Ultra Violet Ray Clinic.
7. Dental Clinic.
8. Diphtheria Immunisation Clinic.
9. Ante-natal Clinic.
Welfare Centres are provided for the areas of:—
1. Bromley Common.
2. Burnt Ash.
3. Hayes and Keston.
4. Plaistow.
5. Shortlands.
6. Widmore.
Each centre is held weekly, with the exceptions oi
Bromley Common and Burnt Ash where two sessions are
held weekly. Full particulars of each centre appear under
Part III., Maternity and Child Welfare of this report.
When the auxiliary School Clinic is completed at
Bromley Common it is hoped that the long standing
problem of a clinic within easy access for the ever
increasing population of the southernmost portion of the
Borough will he solved.
The extension of the School Clinic, Station Road, is
now in hand, and when completed will remedy an
inconvenience which has for a long time impeded the work
of the Plaistow Welfare Centre.
Nursing in the Homes.
(1) The Bromley District Nursing Association, which
was formed in 1907, provides two general trained nurses
for professional district nursing in the homes of those who