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WAR-TIMS NURSERIES
In Juno 1941 a sub-commit too was formed, to deal with
the question of opening Day Nurseries for children under 5
years of ago whose mothers are working.
ORTHOPAEDIC TREATMENT
No formal arrangement has boon made for the treatment
in the Borough of children requiring massage, orthopaedic
treatment or remedial exercises, and cases are referred to the
Middlesex County Council Clinic at Brentford, to the West
Middlesex County Hospital, or to other hospitals able to
undertake the treatment of such cases.
During the year assistance was granted towards the
cost of maintenance of one child at a special open-air school
and the maintenance of one child in hospital for a prolonged
course of ophthalmic treatment.
NURSING HOMES
There are ten registered private nursing homes in
the Borough.
All the homes were kept under periodic supervision
during the year.
The three voluntary hospitals Which receive private
patients are exempted from registration, and the Bearsted
Memorial Hospital which has removed from the East End of
London to the Hampton Court Hotel for the duration of the war,
is also exempted.
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