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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, 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 chiropody scheme for Chingford residents of pensionable
age, sponsored by the Chingford Old People's Welfare Committee and
administered by the Health Department, proceeded at full pressure
throughout the year.
Since its inception in September 1956, 420 persons have applied
for treatment, of whom 207 are actually receiving it at the present
time.
It must be pointed out that chiropody treatment of elderly
persons is, by its very nature, of a continuous and recurring
character, which, in a limited scheme of this kind, creates a long
and very slow-moving waiting list. Thus there are at the present
time about 97 persons awaiting their first treatment; a few of