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Ultra Violet Light Tuesday and Friday 2 p.m.
Treatment Clinic (Winter months only).
(Brentford)
(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 1962 assistance was given by Home Helps to 445 cases in Brentford and
Chiswick Maternity cases 34, tuberculosis cases 5, aged and chronic sick 377,
others 29.
( j ) Ambulance Services:
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.
(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 104
Total attendances at Chiropodists 852
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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