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(e) Day Nursery-
53-55, Canbury Park Road„ 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 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 sehool 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 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 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-Cars,
The eare and after-care of tuberculous persons is dealt with by
the Care Almoner at the Chest Clinic, Out-Patients' Department,
Kingston Hospital, Wolrerton Avenue, Kingston-upon-Thames, Among
other things, the County 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.