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GENERAL PROVISION OF HEALTH
SERVICES FOR THE AREA.
AMBULANCE FACILITIES.
The number of accident cases removed by the ambulances
provided for the removal of non-infectious and accident cases was
670, the number of maternity cases 176, and of other cases 1,589.
The Public Health Committee decided that the Council accept
responsibility for the payment of the fee of 10s. for the attendance
of a midwife or other qualified person to accompany maternity
cases conveyed in the Council's ambulance, and recover from the
patient the fee or such proportion thereof as may be appropriate
upon application of the Council's income scale for maternity
assistance.
CLINICS AND TREATMENT CENTRES.
From the beginning of the year until the end of August, infant
welfare centres were maintained by the Council at the Broadway
Clinic, Wealdstone, three times weekly; Elmwood Clinic, Kenton,
thrice; Spiritualist Church Hall, Vaughan Road, West Harrow,
once; Baptist Church Hall, Northolt Road, twice; St. George's
Hall, Headstone, thrice; The Institute, Whitchurch Lane, Stanmore,
thrice; Memorial Hall, Harrow Weald, once ; Baptist
Church Hall, Imperial Drive, thrice; Baptist Church Hall, Streatfield
Avenue, Kenton, thrice; Methodist Church Hall, Walton
Avenue, South Harrow, twice; and St. Anselm's Hall, Hatch End,
once weekly, being a total of 26 weekly sessions.
Toddlers' clinics were held alternate weeks at the Broadway
Clinic; two weeks out of three at Elmwood Clinic; every third
week at Streatfield Road; weekly at Imperial Drive, and alternate
weeks at Walton Avenue and Love Lane, Pinner, being an equivalent
of 3½ weekly sessions.
Two ante-natal sessions were held weekly at the Broadway
Clinic and at the Elmwood Clinic; weekly sessions were held at
the Stanmore Institute, Imperial Drive Church Hall, Northolt Road
Church Hall, 76, Marlborough Hill, Streatfield Road Hall, Vaughan
Road Hall, and Walton Avenue Church Hall; and a fortnightly
session at Love Lane, Pinner, being the equivalent of 11½ weekly
sessions.
In addition, the Birth Control Clinic was held at the Broadway
Clinic alternate weeks, and a consultant ante-natal clinic at the
same building on alternate weeks.
At the outbreak of the war, many of these buildings were lost
for this purpose, including the Broadway Clinic; the Stanmore
Institute; Memorial Hall, Harrow Weald; Imperial Drive Church
Hall; Walton Avenue Church Hall; the Hall in Love Lane,
Pinner; and St. Anselm's Hall. Partly because so many of the