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(g ) Care of Children:
In addition to the foregoing services the County Council through the
Children's Department is also concerned in caring for children deprived of a
normal home life. Children's Area Officers deal locally with such cases as they
arise, also adoption and neglected children.
(h) Prevention of Illness, Care and After-Care::
The County Council's scheme includes provision for the admission of suitable
cases to recuperative rest homes. (Such cases should not be in need of
medical or nursing care).
The care and after-care of tuberculous persons is dealt with through the
Welfare Officers of the Chest Clinics. The Chest Clinics serving the Borough
are situated at No. 28 Bell Road, Hounslcw Middlesex, and Green Man Passage,
West Ealing, W.13.
(i) Home Helps:
Home help for households where this is required owing to the presence of
a person who is ill, lying in, an expectant mother, mentally subnormal, aged
or a child not over compulsory school age, is provided under the County Council's
scheme.
(j) Ambu1ance Services
An Ambulance Service is maintained by the County Council for the removal
to hospital, where necessary, of accident and sickness cases. Two Ambulance
Stations are sited within the Borough, one in Brentford High Street and one in
Chiswick High Road.
(k) Chiropody Service
Old Age Pensioners are referred to private chiropodists. An assessment
scheme is in operation.
Number of persons treated during the year 167
Total attendances at Chiropodists 1001
Queen Charlotte s & Chelsea Hospitals Board
Midwives are employed for attendance on women in their homes in the Borough
as midwives or as maternity nurses during childbirth.
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