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(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 vaccination and immunisation of infants and young children carried
out at the clinics already referred to, vaccination and immunisation against the diseases
mentioned on the previous page are carried out by most general practitioners.
(f) Prevention of Illness, Care and After Care
The County Council's scheme includes provision for the admission of suitable cases
to recognised recuperative 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) Home 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, aged, or a child not over compulsory
school age within the meaning of the Education Act, 1944, is provided under the County
Council's scheme.
(h) Ambulance Service
A County Ambulance Service is provided for the removal to hospital, where necessary,
of accident and sickness cases. There is an Ambulance Accident Station situated in Southall
beside the Town Hall, and the Sick Removal Service operates from the Depot in Hanwell.
(i) Mental Health Service
The Mental Health Service deals with persons suffering from mental deficiency or
mental illness.
(j) School Health Service
Medical inspection and dental inspection of school children are arranged by the County
Council through the Southall Divisional Executive. Medical treatment and dental treatment
are provided by the County Council in the Borough as follows:—
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