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(e) Day Nursery.
53-55 Canbury Park Road Approved
dation 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 midwifes are employed for attendance as midwives or
maternity nurses at domiciliary confinements.
(g) Home Nursing
Home Nursing is undertaken by nurses of the Queen's Institute
of District Nursing. Nursing equipment required for use in the
home can 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 also act as school nurses working in the
clinics and do home visiting. Their work is largely educational
and social, 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.
(i) Home Helps.
Home Helps are employed to provide domestic help for households
"where such help is required ©wing 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 age." A
charge is usually made for this service but in assessing what the
charge should be consideration is given to the means of the persons
concerned.
(j) Prevention of Illness, Care and After-Care.
The care and after-care of tuberculous persons is dealt with
by the Care Almoner at the Chest Clinic, Out-Patients" Department,
Kingston Hospital, Wolverton Avenue, Kingston-upon-Thames. Among
other things, the Counts Council scheme provides for the admission
of persons, not in need of medical or nursing care, to recuperative
holiday homes and for this a charge is made according to the
persons' circumstances.