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NURSING IN THE HOME
(District Nursing).
The Headquarters of the District Nursing Association is at
21-23, Upper Brighton Road (Telephone Number Elmbridge 3027) where
application should be made for the services of a district nurse or
midwife.
Such applications have to be supported by the family doctor
under whose direction all homo nursing is given.
The District Nursing Services are administered by the Surrey
County Council through the Divisional Medical Officer of Health
who is also Medical Officer of Health for Surbiton.
There is at the District Nursing Headquarters in Upper Brighton
Road a very valuable and successful training school for District
Nurses and Midwives.
ANTE-NATAL CLINICS
The ante-natal clinic can serve as the focal point for all
activities relating to the expectant and nursing mother. The
health visitor from the ante-natal clinic follows up cases at
home for the purpose of advising and helpingthe expectant mother
in all matters relating to pregnancy. Mothers are also encouraged
to attend these clinics after their confinement to make sure that
full health and normality is restored. This service is additional
and designed to supplement that which an expectant mother is
entitled to receive from a general practitioner and midwife.
HOME HELP SERVICE.
Persons desiring to avail themselves of this service should
apply, supporting their application with a medical certificate,
to the Divisional Medical Officer, the Health Centre, Grange Road,
Kingston upon Thames, who will arrange for the Divisional Home Help
Supervisor to visit and investigate the application.
WATER SUPPLY.
The whole of the water supply for the Borough comes from the
Metropolitan Water Board and is satisfactory both as regards
quantity and quality.
All premises have a direct mains supply and there are no wells
or standpipes in use.
Monthly reports are supplied by the Board giving details of
their chemical and bacteriological examinations.
This dependable first class water supply is a tremendous factor
in maintaining the good health of the people of Surbiton.
The question of adjustment of fluoride in the public water
supply to a level appropriate for the prevention of dental decay
was again considered by the COUNCIL.
By a majority decision they resolved "that the County Council
be informed that so far as this Authority are concerned, they
strongly disapprove of the addition of fluoride to the water
supplies within the Borough.
RIVERS AND STREAMS.
The Hogsmill River is the Borough boundary for some two miles
on the eastern side. Now that sewage effluent from Epsom is no
longer discharged into it it is again a clean stream.
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