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Medical Arrangements for Children's Homes
Reception Home, Rosebery House, 7/9 Rosebery Road, Cheam
Throwley House, 10 Throwley Road, Sutton
Malvern House, Foxley Road, Kenley
Camperdown Children's Home, 146 Woodcote Road, Wallington
Dean House, 95 Nutfield Road, Merstham
Working Girls' Hostel, 57 Montague Gardens, Wallington
A general practitioner residing near the Reception Home is responsible for the
examination of new admissions and discharges as well as for medical treatment.
At all other homes a general practitioner is responsible for medical treatment.
Examinations of new admissions and discharges are carried out by Medical Officers
in Department. In addition a medical officer visits all the homes regularly, carries
out routine medical inspections annually on all children resident in the home and is
responsible for seeing that any special investigations and routine immunisations
against infectious diseases are carried out. Advice is also given to the house parents on
any medical aspect concerned with the care of the children.
Each home is inspected regularly by the Principal Medical Officer and a report
on the environmental conditions and the health of the children submitted.
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