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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
Surbiton 1927
[Report of the Medical Officer of Health for Surbiton]
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Clinics and Treatment Centres.—Combined
Maternity and Child Welfare Centre and
School Clinic (provided by Surrey County Council),
South Place, Surbiton.
Tuberculosis is Dispensary (provided by Surrey
County Councd), South Place, Surbiton.
Venereal Diseases.—Arrangements are
made by the County Council for the treatment of
these diseases at various Hospitals and Centres.
Professional Nursing in the Home.
(a) General.
The St. Mark's, Surbiton and St. Mary's,
Ditton, Nursing Association, which is affiliated
with Queen Victoria's Jubilee Nurses Association,
has a trained nurse who is available for attending
cases of sickness (other than maternity cases) in
the home, within a radius of two miles of the
Surbiton Post Office.
In each of the Ecclesiastical Parishes of Christ
Church and St. Matthew's a parish nurse is provided
by the Church Authorities for home nursing.
There are also three private nursing associations,
whose nurses are available for home nursing
on payment of the prescribed fee.
(b) Infectious Disease.
There are no arrangements for the home
nursing of cases of Measles and Whooping Cough.