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2. Midwifery and Maternity Nursing.
The Harrow Council engaged a staff of 16 midwives to provide its
domiciliary midwifery and maternity nursing service. Midwives worked
in four groups of four each. The services transferred in July, 1948, to
the Middlesex County Council. Owing to the volume of work in the
London County Council Headstone Lane Estate, an additional midwife
to live on the estate has been appointed.
The following are the particulars of the members of the staff:—
Nurse Raeburn, 16, Worcester Court, Headstone Drive, Wealdstone.
(Harrow 1669).
Nurse James, 75, Pinner Hill Road, Harrow. (Pinner 5558.)
Nurse Eagle, 168, Whittington Way, Pinner. (Pinner 7864.)
Nurse Lundy, 2, Church Avenue, Pinner. (Pinner 3378)
Nurse Ponter, 36, Corbins Lane, South Harrow. (Byron 2851.)
Nurse Rough, 213, Exeter Road, South Harrow. (Pinner 5752.)
Nurse Walsh, 2, Goldsmith Close, South Harrow. (Field End 9090.)
Nurse Hinton, Flat 4, The Lawns, Lower Road, Harrow. (Byron
0340.)
Nurse , 37, Queens Court, Kenton Lane, Kenton. (Wordsworth
2052.)
Nurse Shaw, 113, Locket Road, Wealdstone. (Harrow 1601.)
Nurse Rees, 1, Masefield Avenue, Uxbridge Road, Stanmore.
Nurse Speaight, 585, Honeypot Lane, Stanmore. (Wordsworth 5564.)
Nurse Mooney, 39, Malvern Gardens, Kenton. (Wordsworth 2153.)
Nurse Robertson, 83, Merlin Crescent, Edgware. (Edgware 1181.)
Nurse Francis, 68, St. Pauls Avenue, Kenton. (Wordsworth 1433.)
Nurse Hutnell, 14, Tiverton Road, Edgware. (Edgware 1378.)
Nurse Swann, 161, Courtenay Avenue, Headstone Lane, Wealdstone.
The work of the midwives is co-ordinated by the non-medical supervisor
of midwives. For the last two years this duty has been undertaken
by Mrs. Brace, the superintendent health visitor, until such time as the
non-medical supervisor of midwives will be appointed.
In addition to the Authority's staff, there were at the end of the year
five midwives living in the area whose work was almost entirely restricted
to domiciliary practice here, while as well there were seven midwives
living out of the area but whose domiciliary practice extends into this
district.
3. Home Helps.
For many years most maternity and child welfare authorities provided
a service of home helps to assist in those households where the
mothers were being confined. During the war years the service was
extended to provide help as well in the homes where the need arose
because the housewife fell ill or had to undergo an operation, where she