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Hints from the Health Department. Leaflet from the archive of the Society of Medical Officers of Health. Credit: Wellcome Collection, London

Brentford and Chiswick 1959

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

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Chiswick:-
Ante-Natal Clinics and Wednesday and Thursday mornings
Post-Natal Clinics 9.30 a.m. to 12 noon
Infant Welfare Clinics Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday
afternoons 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Diphtheria, Whooping
Cough, and Poliomyelitis Monday afternoons 2 p.m. to 4.30 p.m.
Immunisation and
Vaccination Clinics
Priority Dental Service for expectant and nursing mothers and children
under School age.
(b) 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).
(c) Home Nursing and Nursing Equipment:
Home Nurses are employed to undertake the nursing of persons in their own
homes. (This work was formerly undertaken by "District Nurses"). Where nursing
equipment is required for use in the home, it is available on loan through the
British Red Cross Society.

Table: Number and classification of patients visited by the Home Nurses in the Borough during the year are as follows:-

Number and classification of patients visited by the Home Nurses in the Borough during the year are as follows:-

Type of caseUnder 5 years5-64 years65 years and overTotalGrand Total
MFMFMFMF
Medical5389128155359249490739
Surgical2_111349172239
Infectious Disease--1---1-1
Tuberculosis--192333222648
Maternal Complications---4---44
Others---1---11
TOTALS73120169162371289543832