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Diphtheria, Whooping Cough and Tetanus Immunisation, Smallpox and Poliomyelitis Vaccination Clinics
Jubilee Gardens Centre, Northcote Avenue Clinic and13, King Street.
Ultra Violet Light Clinic
Northcote Avenue Clinic.
Priority Dental Service for Expectant under School Age
Northcote Avenue Clinic and 13, King 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 23.)
(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 above 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 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.)
(i) Mental Health Service
The Mental Health Service deals with persons suffering from mental illness.
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