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2. Health 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 Borough:-
(a) Ante-natal and post-natal clinics.
Health Centre, Grange Road. Wednesdays, p.m.
(b) Infant welfare clinics.
Health Centre. Tuesdays & Fridays, p.m.
Dinton Road Clinic, St. Agatha's Mondays & Thursdays,p.m.
Church Hall. (Now closed 1957)- Temporary premises 1957
St. Paul's Hall, Park Road.
(c) Immunisation and Vaccination clinics.
Health Centre. Fridays, p.m.
Dinton Road Clinic. Tuesdays, p.m.
" " " (Fridays, a.m. from 1.3.57)
(d) Dental clinics.
Health Centre. Daily.
"Keeldar", 25, Queen's Road. Daily by appointment.
(Orthodontic only)
(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 Cross Society at the
B.R.C.S. H.Q., 73, Penrhyn Road, Kingston-upon-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".