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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 Boroughs-
(a) Ante-natal and Post-natal Clinics.
Health Centre, Grange Road. Wednesday afternoon.
(b) Infant Welfare Clinics.
Health Centre. (Kingston 7261). Tuesday and Friday
afternoon
Thursday afternoon.
(Toddlers)
Queen's Road Clinic, Monday and Thursday
27, Queen's Road. (Kingston 5812). afternoons.
(c) Immunisation and Vaccination Clinics.
Health Centre. Thursday afternoon.
Queen's Road Clinic, Friday forenoon.
(d) Dental Clinics.
Health Centre. Daily.
"Keeldar", 25, Queen's Road. Daily by appointment.
(Orthodontic only).
(e) Day Nursery.
53-55 Canbury Par* Roa*. Approved accommodation
46 places
This day nursery admits children aged 0-5 years and a
small 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.
(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,
(Kingston 5072).
(h) Health Visitors.
Health Visitors who also act as school nurses work in the
clinics and also do 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."