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Domestic Help Service.
Application for this service is made to the Area Supervisor
at the Municipal Offices, Bromley. Demands for assistance continue
to increase, especially for cases of illness in the home, and
for old people.
Provision is also made for domestic help during a home
confinement.
The estimated gross cost per annum, per whole time Domestic
Help is £253.
Ambulance Facilities.
The Ambulance Depot is at Masons Hill, Bromley, and provision
is made for the removal of case to the appropriate
hospitals. Sitting case cars are provided for out-patients on
medical certification.
The estimated gross cost per mile for the ambulances, etc.,
is 1s. 9d.
Venereal Diseases.
Patients are referred either to the London Hospitals or one
of the established centres in the County. No centre is provided
within the Borough for the treatment of these diseases.
Laboratory Services.
There has been no change in the past year.
The Kent County Council provide a Laboratory service for
the whole of the County through their Laboratory at Maidstone.
In cases of an urgent nature specimens, etc., have been sent
to the Laboratory at Bromley Hospital, and I would record my
appreciation of the assistance given in this respect by Dr. Keall
and his staff.
The following details are given of the swabs, specimens, etc.,
sent for examination and report during the year:-
Haemolytic Streptococci 360
Diphtheria 6
Faeces 59
Food Samples, etc. 632
Water Samples 11
Miscellaneous 5
1,073
Medical Loan Depot.
The British Red Cross Society have continued with their
Medical Loan Depots during the past year. A full range of
nursing requisites is available at these depots.
Application for loans of such equipment for Bromley residents
should be made to either of the following depots:34a,
Market Square, Bromley.
4, East Street, Bromley.