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Diphtheria, Whooping Cough and Jubilee Gardens Centre, Northcote
Tetanus Immunisation, Smallpox and Avenue Clinic and
Poliomyelitis Vaccination Clinics 13 King Street.
Ultra Violet Light Clinic Northcote Avenue Clinic.
Priority Dental Service for Expectant
and Nursing Mothers and Children Northcote Avenue Clinic and
under School Age 13 K.ng Street.
(b) Midwifery Service
Certified Midwives are employed, for attendance on women in their homes in the
Borough 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, to the elderly, 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 at
the request of general practitioners and hospitals. Where nursing equipment is required
for use in the home, it is available on loan, through the British Red Cross Society. (For
details, see page 22.)
(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 this page are carried out by most general practitioners.
(/) 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 of 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 Accident Ambulance Station situated in Southall
beside the Town Hall. The Sick Removal Service operates from the Depot in Hanwell
under the control of 'C' District Headquarters in Mogden Lane, Isleworth. (Telephone
Number POPesgrove 8123.)
(/) Mental Health Service
The Mental Health Service deals with persons suffering from mental illness.
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