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The Service also deals with accident cases, and
there are reciprocal arrangements with Beckenhum
and Peuge for the use of their ambulances in the
event of both Corporation Ambulances being in
use.
Fees for use of the ambulance may be reduced,
or remitted entirely, in necessity.
(c) Nursing in tiie Home.—No change.
(d) Treatment Centres and Clinics provided by the
Local Authority.—An additional Welfare Centre
was opened in June in co-operation with the
County Council at Ray's Hall, Southborough, to
serve that area and the adjacent district of Petts
Wood. A session is held weekly on Friday and replaces
the weekly session which was held on Fridays
at Princes Plain School Clinic. The County
Council hold a separate session on Thursdays and
there is reciprocal arrangements between the two
Authorities for mothers to use either Centre.
The Ante-Natal Clinic service has been augmented
by an evening clinic held on Tuesdays for
expectant mothers who are in full-time employment,
and also for mothers booked under the Midwifery
Scheme for Hospital confinements who
come under this service for Ante-Natal supervision
at the request of the County Hospital.
(e) Tuberculosis Dispensary, 2 Park Road.—No
change.
(f) Venereal Diseases and Treatment Centres.—
The County Council provides treatment at various
Centres in the County. Efforts were made to
establish a centre in Bromley but difficulty in
obtaining suitable accommodation was encountered.
Venereal diseases are seriously on the increase
and the Government has initiated an intensive
campaign by stressing the important and very
essential part that must be played by educational
work to secure the widest possible spread of knowledge
of the tragic consequences- of these diseases.
There are to be increased facilities for treatment,
and expansion, if necessary, of arrangements for
treatment, and no part of an area should be more
than ten miles from treatment facilities. One feels,