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HOSPITAL PROVISION AND NURSING
ARRANGEMENTS.
Nursing.—There is no provision for home nursing by the
County or the Local Authority. The local branch of the Essex
Cottage Nursing Association employs 10 nurses who are largely
occupied in Midwifery practice. They also do a considerable
amount of nursing among the poor, but they do not attend, as a
rule, on cases of Fever, Measles or Whooping Cough.
Midwives.—There are 18 practising in the District.
Of these 7 reside at the local Branch of the Essex Nursing
Association, and they are all under the supervision of the Medical
Officer of Health. They are visited regularly and reported upon to
the County Medical Officer of Health, through whom payments
are made in accordance with the Provisions of the Midwives Act,
1918.
The work of all the Midwives has been generally satisfactory.
Clinics and Treatment Centres.—These embrace the following :—
Situation. Accommodation. By whom provided. Description.
Brookscroft, Waiting rooms, Voluntary Infant consultations,
Forest Road weighing Association wards for observa-
room, consult- tion and
ing room, ment.
class rooms
Truro Hall, Waiting, weigh- Urban Dist. Infant consultations,
High Street ing and con- Council Ante-Natal Clinic,
suiting rooms
Lloyd Park Waiting, con- Walthamstow Minor ailments, DenWalthamstow
suiting and Education tal Clinic, Eye
treatment Committee Clinic
rooms
Hoe Street, Do. Voluntary X-ray treatment for
Walthamstow school children by
arrangement.
Do. Do. Essex County Tuberculosis Dis-
Council pensary.
Venereal Diseases are treated at the London Hospitals by
arrangement made by the Essex County Council.
The Council's Centre, situated in a turning off a main street,
is fairly well placed as regards accessibility for those who attend
and for those for whom the Centre was primarily established.