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(d) Registered Nursing Homes.
There are three registered Nursing Homes in the district,
two receiving maternity and medical patients, and the third Home
receiving medical cases only. The Homes were inspected regularly
and found to be conducted in a satisfactory manner.
(e) Clinics and Treatment Centres.
See table of clinics on page 7.
(f) Hospitals.
The hospitals providing general medical services for Chingford
residents are chiefly the Connaught Hospital, Walthamstow,
and the Wanstead Hospital, Wanstead.
Persons with infectious disease, needing admission to hospital,
are accommodated at the Chingford Isolation Hospital and the
Isolation Hospital at Waltham Abbey; or, if no bed is available at
either of these hospitals, the Emergency Bed Service arranges
admission to the nearest hospital where a bed is available.
(g) Day Nurseries.
There are two Nurseries in the district, one situated in converted
premises at 136/138, Chingford Mount Road, and the other,
of prefabricated hut construction, in Hatch Lane. Regular medical
inspection of the children attending these Nurseries was carried
out during the year.
(h) Home and Domestic Help Scheme.
There is a Home and Domestic Help Scheme in the Chingford
district, under the auspices of the Essex County Council. Application
for these facilities should be made to the Health Visitors in
the district.
The total number of hours help supplied during the year
1950 was 31,859.
(i) Chiropody Facilities.
A Chiropody Clinic for persons of pensionable age only,
commenced on 21st December, 1950, being held on Thursday
afternoons at the Combined Treatment Centre, Marmion Avenue.
In addition to the above facilities, four persons hold a licence
from the Essex County Council to carry on private practice as
chiropodists within the borough.
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