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Nurse Chitty undertakes duties in connection with the
Hogarth Boys' Schools (Senior and Junior), the Hogarth Infants
and Beverley Road Infant Schools ; Nurse Thompson with the
Belmont Group of Schools ; Nurse Clarke with the Hogarth
Girls (Senior and Junior) and the Chiswick Central Schools;
Nurse Warren with the Strand Group of Schools; Nurse
Catherwood with Ealing Road, Lionel Road, St. George's,
St. Paul's, and Clifden Road Infants; Nurse Broughton with
the Brentford Senior Schools and St. John's School and Canal
Boat Children's School.
Each Nurse is apportioned a district for Home Visiting
corresponding as far as possible with the schools she attends.
This visiting is carried out in conjunction with the duties as
Health Visitor.
Nursing duties in the Minor Ailment Clinics are shared by
the six Nurses. Nurses Catherwood and Thompson attend the
Ophthalmic Clinic in their respective areas and Nurse Clarke
attends the Rheumatism Clinic. Also Nurse Catherwood is in
charge of a Minor Ailment Clinic at Lionel Road School and
Nurse Thompson is in nursing charge of the Diphtheria
Immunisation Clinic.
The Orthopaedic Nurse and Masseuse (from the Royal
National Orthopaedic Hospital) attends at the Orthopaedic
Clinic at Brentford each Monday and Thursday afternoon during
the school year.
2.—CO-ORDINATION.
It has been recognised for many years in this area that there
is no sharp line of demarcation between the medical and nursing
requirements of the school children and those of pre-school age,
and the medical and nursing staff are the same for both
Maternity and Child Welfare and the School Medical Services.
As far as possible duties are arranged so that it would be
possible for the same staff to follow up the children from birth
to the time they leave school.
Further, all the clinics established by the Education
Committee are available for children attending the Maternity
and Child Welfare Centres. Every effort is made to persuade
parents to have remediable defects treated before the children
attend school.