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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 adoptions 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, Hounslow, 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.
In 1961 assistance was given by Home Helps to 455 cases in Brentford and
Chiswick. Maternity cases 39 „ tuberculosis cases 7„ aged and chronic sick 378,
others 31.
(j) Ambulance Service:
An Ambulance Service based at the Ambulance Depot, Mogden Lane, Isleworth,
is maintained by the County Council for the removal to hospital, where necessary,
of accident and sickness cases An accident ambulance is sited at the Chiswick
Fire Station.
During the year the ambulances were transferred from the sites which they
had occupied for many years in the fire stations in Brentford High Street and
in Chiswick High Road, to the site in Isleworth, but no reports to date have
been received in the Public Health Department that this has occasioned delay
or difficulty on any occasion.
(k) Chiropody Service:
Some Old Age Pensioners are referred to private chiropodists. An assessment
scheme is in operation.
Number of persons treated during the year 82
Total attendances at Chiropodists 714
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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