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Services Rendered by the County Council.
The following services are provided by the County Council,
and supervised through the Area Sub-Committee.
Health Visiting.
There are seven Health Visitors carrying out their duties in
the Bromley area. In addition to their duties in connection with
the School Health Service, they give advice on the care of young
children, and to expectant and nursing mothers, and carry out
work in connection with immunisation, vaccination and other
Maternity and Child Welfare services.
Midwifery (Domiciliary).
There are four Midwives engaged full-time in domiciliary
midwifery in the area. Their services are engaged direct by the
patient, or through the patient's private doctor, and they act
either as midwives or maternity nurses.
Home Nursing Service.
This service, which, under the National Health Service Act,
became free on 5th July, 1948, provides trained nurses for patients
who require nursing in their own homes. The service is provided
on medical certification only, and, at present, there is no night
service available.
There are six Home Nurses in the Bromley area.
Domestic Help Service.
Applications for this service are made to the Area Supervisor
at the Municipal Offices, Bromley. Assistance is given in cases
of illness, and provision is also made for a domestic help during
a home confinement.
Venereal Diseases.
No centre is provided within the Borough for treatment of
Venereal Diseases; patients are referred either to the London
Hospitals or one of the established centres in the County.
Laboratory Services.
The Kent County Council provides a Laboratory service for
the whole of the County through their Laboratory at Maidstone.
Considerable assistance has also been rendered by Dr.
Griffiths and the staff of the Laboratory at Farnborough Hospital,
and by Dr. Keall and the staff of the Laboratory at Bromley
Hospital, in the examination of and reporting upon specimens
of an urgent nature which it was not possible to send to Maidstone
for examination.