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2. Heath Services provided by other Authorities.
The Medical Officer of Health is the Divisional
Medical Officer responsible for the personal health services
administered by the Surrey County Council.
Surrey County Council - Health Department., The County
Council which is the Local Health Authority under the National
Health Service Act, 1946, provides the following services in
the Boroughs:-
(a) Ante-natal and post-natal clinics.
Health Centres, Grange Read. Wednesday, p.m
(b) Infant welfare clinics.
Health Centre, Grange Road.
Tuesdays & Fridays
p.m.
St. Agatha's Church Hall,
Dintion Road.
Mondays & Thursdays,
p.m.
(c) Immunisation and Vaccination clinics.
Health Centre, Grange Road.
Dinton Road.
Fridays, p.m.
Tuesdays p.m.
(d) Dental clinics.
Health Centre, Grange Road.
"Keeldar", 25, Queen's Road.
Daily
Daily by appointment.
(e) Day Nursery. Approved accommodation
53-55, Canbury Park Road. 46 places
This day nursery admits children aged 0-5 and a charge is
made for the care of the children.
(f) Midwifery Service.
Certified midwives are employed for attendance as
midwives or maternity nurses at domiciliary confinements.
Gas and air analgesia is available.
(g) Home Nursing.
This is undertaken by nurses of the Queen's
Institute of District Nursing. Where nursing equipment is
required for use in the home, arrangements have been made for
this to be supplied on loan through the British Red Gross
Society at the B.R.C.S. H.Q., 73, Penrhyn Road, Kingstonupon-Thames
(KIN .5072).
(h) Health Visitors.
Health Visitors who also act as School Nurses
work in the' clinics and also do the home visiting. Their
work is largely educational and social, and is defined in
the Act as "giving advice as to the care of young children,
persons suffering from illness, and expectant and nursing
mothers, and as to the measures necessary to prevent the
spread of infection."
(1) Domestic Helps.
Home helps are employed to provide domestic help
for households "where such help is required owing to the
presence of any person who is ill, lying-in, an expectant
mother, mentally defective, aged, or a child not over
compulsory school age." A charge is made for this service
and in assessing this, regard is had to the means of the
persons concerned.