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Women's Welfare Clinic
Birth control -1st visits 50
" " -revisits 297
Total 347
(c) 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 Honey Lane Hospital at Waltham Abbey, or at
Isolation Hospitals in nearby districts; or, if no bed is available
at these hospitals, the Emergency Bed Service arranges admission to
the nearest hospital where a bed is available.
(h) Day Nurseries
There is one Day Nursery in the district, situated at 136/138,
Chingford Mount Road. Regular medical inspection of the children
attending this Nursery was carried out during the year.
(i) 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 Area
Medical Officer, Municipal Offices, High Road, Woodford, E.18.
(j) Chiropody Facilities
A chiropody clinic for persons of pensionable age only is
held on Thursday afternoons at the Essex County Health Services
Clinic, Marmion Avenue, South Chingford. Appointments to attend
this clinic must be made through the Area Medical Officer, Municipal
Offices, High Road, Woodford, E.18.
The Health Department undertook the administration of the scheme
to provide chiropody for Chingford residents of pensionable age,
sponsored by the Chingford Old People's Welfare Committee. This
scheme commenced in September 1956 and the response has been overwhelming.
At present two chiropodists practising in the borough
provide treatment under the scheme. The waiting time between the
date of application for treatment and the date treatment can be
commenced is approximately sixteen weeks.