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Brentford and Chiswick 1937

[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Brentford and Chiswick]

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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 ; Nurse Broughton
with the Brentford Senior Schools and 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.
The policy of combining all the Medical and Nursing
services provided for the schools and the Maternity and Child
Welfare Clinics has been maintained. The same personnel is
used for both services, thus rendering it possible to follow up
children from birth until they leave school.
Further, all treatment and advising clinics provided by the
Education Committee are used by children attending the Child
Welfare Clinics.