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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' Schools and Nurse
Broughton with the Brentford Senior Schools, St. John's School
and Canal Boats 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.
As mentioned in former Annual Reports, in this area there
is no sharp line of demarkation between the medical and
nursing requirements of the school children and those of preschool
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 treatment and advisory 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.