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NURSING, MIDWIFERY, ETC., IN THE HOME
1. General Nursing.
The home nursing service maintained by the County Council is
provided for most of the area by the staff based at, and most of them
living in, the two homes maintained by the former Greater Harrow
District Nursing Association. The service is supervised by Miss Webster
at "Cottesmore." The Bessborough Road Nursing Home (Tel. No.
Byron 2647) is in charge of the Superintendent, Miss Dodds; and the
Home at 93, Uppingham Avenue (Tel. No. Wordsworth 2538) is under
Miss Allan. The two nurses of the former Pinner and Hatch End
Nursing Association are still working from their own homes: Miss Dutson
at 254, Uxbridge Road, Hatch End (Tel. No. Hatch End 213) and Miss
Swift at 135, Pinner Hill Road (Tel. No. Pinner 2607).
Up to the end of the year, Miss Sennitt, a member of the staff of
the Edgware and Little Stanmore Nursing Association, continued to
work in this district from her home at 138, Whitchurch Lane, Edgware.
Another part of the district was served by the staff of the Watling District
Nursing Association, Superintendent Miss Perkins, 1, Gervase Road,
Edgware (Tel. No. Mill Hill 1836).
The home nursing service is continued on much the same lines as
when it was provided over most of the district by the District Nursing
Association, the nurses carrying out the treatment ordered by the patients'
medical attendants. The number of nurses is far below the number
agreed as the establishment, even though there is accommodation at
the nurses' homes and even though, too, non-resident staff are engaged.
That the salaries of the home nurses were not brought into line with those
of the staff engaged at hospitals did not make it any easier to recruit
staff, so that the services could not meet the demands made on it even
for nursing in the daytime and evening ; still less could a 24-hour service
be maintained.
2. Midwifery and Maternity Nursing.
The County Council, as local health authority, is responsible for
the domiciliary midwifery service of the district. There are sixteen
midwives living in their homes in various parts of the district, who work
under the supervision of the non-medical supervisor of midwives, Miss
Webster, and the senior midwife, Miss Rough, of 213, Exeter Road,
South Harrow (Tel. No. Pinner 5752).
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 Walsh, 168, Whittington Way, Pinner. (Pinner 7864.)
Nurse Lundy, 2, Church Avenue, Pinner. (Pinner 3378.)
Nurse Ponter, 36, Corbins Lane, South Harrow. (Byron 2851.)
Nurse Eagle, 2, Goldsmith Close, South Harrow. (Field End 9090.)
Nurse Hinton, Flat 4, The Lawns, Lower Road, Harrow. (Byron
0340.)