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Day Nurseries No. 2. Recreation Ground.
No. 3. Jubilee Gardens.
No. 4. Spikes Bridge, Municipal Sports Ground.
Priority Dental Service for expectant and nursing mothers and children under school
age.
(b) Midwifery Service.
Certified Midwives are employed for attendance on women in their homes in the
Borough as midwives or as maternity nurses during childbirth.
(c) Health Visitors.
Health Visitors are employed to undertake home visiting for the purpose of giving
advice on the care of young children, to persons suffering from illness, to expectant and
nursing mothers and on the measures necessary to prevent the spread of infection. (The
Health Visitors also act as School Nurses.)
(d) Home Nursing and Nursing Equipment
Home Nurses are employed to undertake the nursing of persons in their own homes.
(This work was formerly undertaken by " District Nurses.")
Where nursing equipment is required for use in the home, it is available on loan through
the British Red Cross Society.
(e) Vaccination and Immunisation.
In addition to the immunisation of infants and young children carried out at the clinics
already referred to, vaccination against smallpox and immunisation against diphtheria
is carried out by those general practitioners who have agreed to co-operate in the County
Council scheme.
(f) Prevention of Illness, Care and After Care.
The County Council's scheme includes provision for the admission of suitable cases
to holiday rest homes. (Such cases should not be in need of medical or nursing care.)
The care and after care of tuberculous persons is dealt with through the Welfare Officer
at the Chest Clinic.
(g) Domestic Helps.
Home Help for householders where this is required owing to the presence of a person
who is ill, lying in, an expectant mother, mental defective, disabled or aged is provided under
the County Council's scheme.
(h) Ambulance Service.
An Ambulance Service is provided for the removal to hospital, where necessary, of
accident and sickness cases. This service is organised in association with the Fire Service.
There is one Ambulance Sub-Station situated in Southall beside the Town Hall.
(i) Mental Health Service.
The Mental Health Service deals with persons suffering from mental deficiency or
mental illness.
(f) School Medical Service.
Medical inspection and dental inspection of school children is arranged by the County
Council through the Southall Divisional Executive.
Medical treatment and dental treatment is provided by the County Council in the
Borough as follows:—
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