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eleven nurses in addition to the Superintendent, the Deputy Superintendent
and the senior nurse at Belmont. Although at times private
bills have been introduced in the House to empower authorities to provide
a nursing service in the home, in most areas this service continues to
be provided by staffs of district nursing associations. From July 5th,
1948, it becomes the responsibility of the local health authority—in this
area the County Council, Section 25 of the National Health Service Act,
1946, which deals with the subject reading: "It shall be the duty of every
local health authority to make provision in their area whether by making
arrangements with voluntary organisations for the employment by
those organisations of nurses or by themselves employing nurses for
securing the attendance of nurses on persons who require nursing in
their own homes."
2. Midwifery and Maternity Nursing.
The following are the names and addresses of the Council midwives :
Nurse Raeburn, 16, Worcester Court, Headstone Drive, Wealdstone.
Nurse Tennant, 49, Cannons Lane, Pinner.
Nurse Eagle, 168, Whittington Way, Pinner.
Nurse Lundy, 2, Church Avenue, Pinner.
Nurse Angel, 9, Thistlecroft Gardens, Stanmore.
Nurse Craft, 134, Brampton Grove, Kenton.
Nurse Swann, 38, College Hill Road, Harrow Weald.
Nurse Shaw, 113, Locket Road, Wealdstone.
Nurse Ponter, 36, Corbins Lane, South Harrow.
Nurse Walsh, 65, Shaftesbury Avenue, South Harrow.
Nurse Janes, 14, Crown Street, Harrow.
Nurse Rough, 213, Exeter Road, South Harrow.
Nurse Mooney, 39, Malvern Gardens, Kenton.
Nurse Francis, 68, St. Paul's Avenue, Kenton.
Nurse Robertson, 83, Merlin Crescent, Edgware.
Nurse Speaight, 470, Honeypot Lane, Stanmore.
In addition there were at the end of the year eight midwives living
in the area whose work is almost entirely restricted to domiciliary practice
here, while as well there were six midwives living out of the area, but
whose domiciliary practice extends into this district.
The responsibility for the supervision of midwives and the administration
of the midwifery service passes to the County Council next July,
under Section 23 of the National Health Service Act. "The local
health authority shall be the responsible authority for the purposes
of the Midwives Acts, 1902-1936... It shall be the duty of every local
health authority to secure that the number of certified midwives who are
available in the authority's area for attendance on women in their homes
as midwives or as maternity nurses during childbirth and from time to
time thereafter during a period not less than the lying-in period is
adequate for the needs of the area."