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County Council of Middlesex
The County Council of Middlesex is the Local Health Authority
under the National Health Service Act, 1946, and provides the
following services in the Borough:-
(a) Care of Mothers and Young Children:
Brentford
Ante-Natal Clinics and ) Wednesday mornings 9 to 12 a.m.
Post-Natal Clinics )
Infant Welfare Clinics Monday and
Wednesday afternoons2 to 4 p.m.
Diphtheria Immunisation Clinics Tuesday afternoons2 to 3.30 p.m.
Rheumatism Clinics Thursday mornings 9 to 10 a.m.
Day Nursery Portsdown House, The Butts,
Brentford.
Chiswick;-
Ante-Natal Clinics and ) Tuesday and Thursday mornings by
Post Natal Clinics ) appointment.
Infant Welfare Clinics Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and
Friday afternoons 2 to 4 p.m.
Diphtheria Immunisation Clinics Monday afternoons 2 to 2.30 p.m.
Day Nursery Bennett Street, Chiswick, W. 4.
Priority Dental Service for expectant and nursing mothers and
children under school age.
(b) Midwifery Service;
Certified Midwives are employed for attendance on women in their
homes in the Borough as midwives or as maternity nurses during
childbirth.
(c) Health Visitors:
Health Visitors are employed to undertake home visiting for the
purpose of giving advice on the care of young children, to persons
suffering from illness, to expectant and nursing mothers and on the
measures necessary to prevent the spread of infection. (The Health
Visitors also act as School Nurses).
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