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Council. This is one of the services administered locally by the Local
Area Committee. Most midwives live in their own homes, largely in
that part of the district they serve.
The following are particulars of the local midwives whose work is
co-ordinated by the Non-Medical Supervisor of Midwives, Mrs. R. M.
Bromley, 213, Exeter Road, South Harrow (Pinner 5752):—
Mrs. M. M. Francis, 68, St. Paul's Avenue, Kenton. (Wordsworth 1433.)
Mrs. N. M. James, 6, South Close, Woodhall Gate, Pinner. (Pinner 5558.)
Mrs. B. A. Lundy, 47, Hillcroft Avenue, Pinner. (Field End 6569).
Mrs. F. R. Mooney, 23, Mayfield Avenue, Kenton. (Wordsworth 2153.)
Miss P. E. Raeburn, 16, Worcester Court, Wealdstone. (Harrow 1669.)
Mrs. E. W. Rees, 1, Masefield Avenue, Stanmore. (Grimsdyke 2610.)
Miss M. R. Robertson, 83, Merlin Crescent, Edgware. (Edgware 1181.)
Mrs. G. Shaw, 29, Dryden Road, Harrow Weald. (Harrow 1601.)
Miss R. C. Speaight, 585, Honeypot Lane, Stanmore. (Wordsworth 5564.)
Miss H. A. Swann, 2, Goldsmith Close, South Harrow. (Byron 4004.)
Mrs. B. Walsh, 168, Whittington Way, Pinner. (Pinner 7864.)
Last year the midwives attended the confinements of 582 women
in their own homes, being present in 491 instances as midwives and in
91 as maternity nurses.
3. Home Helps
The County Council, as local health authority, provides domestic
helps to households where such help is required because of illness, or the
lying-in of an expectant mother, because of anyone who is mentally
defective or is aged or because of children not over compulsory school
age.
Home Helps are engaged full time or part time; they are paid by
the authority. Depending on the financial circumstances of the household,
part or all of this expenditure is recovered from those who are
helped.
Although in essence an emergency service or at least one which it is
intended shall be provided for short periods only, many of those who
are assisted need continued help because their difficulty is not so much
that they cannot find someone to help them as that they cannot afford
to pay for that help. This applies more especially when the help is
given to families where there is a member suffering from tuberculosis or
where help is being given to the aged or to the chronically incapacitated.
As contrasted with the arrangements for the engagement of nurses and
midwives, the allocation of duties of home helps is made by the organiser
of the service, Mrs. Chilvers, who works from the Area Health Office at
" Kynaston Court " (Tel. No. Grimsdyke 3131).
4. Physiotherapy Service
The funds of the Greater Harrow District Nursing Association have
been applied to provide a domiciliary physiotherapy service through the
London Area Mobile Physiotherapy Service Ltd. who arrange for treatment
by physiotherapists who practice in the area. The procedure is
that a doctor who wishes his patient to have the treatment completes the
application form which is sent to L.A.M.P.S., 19, Broadway, W.6
(Riverside 4058). The form is then passed to the appropriate