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Hospitals.
The Uxbridge Cottage Hospital, containing 12 beds, serves for any suitable
cases in the Uxbridge Rural district, and during the year several cases have been
admitted from Harefield, West Drayton, Hillingdon, and Hillingdon Heath. A
private ward is now obtainable for one patient.
An X-Ray Apparatus is shortly being installed at the Hospital; this will
be a great benefit to the district.
For infectious cases there is the Joint Hospital, Kingston Lane, Uxbridge,
where there is adequate accommodation for the reception and treatment of cases
of Scarlet Fever and Diphtheria.
The Small-Pox Hospital at Yeading is available in case of need.
The Uxbridge Poor Law Institution at Hillingdon has, during the year, to some
extent served as a General Hospital. Patients suffering from Influenzal Pneumonia,
other acute illnesses, and many cases of accident (broken limbs, etc.) have been
treated there.
Maternity and Child Welfare Work.
The Maternity and Child Welfare Centres have done good work, and new
Centres have been opened at Hillingdon Heath and Northolt. These Centres are
open weekly (or fortnightly) and a Medical Officer of the Middlesex County Council
attends to give advice to the mothers concerning their babies. Persons eligible
are expectant mothers, and children up to the age of five. In cases of need, free,
half-price, or cost-price milk (or dried milk) is supplied through these Centres. There
are three Health Visitors working in the. Uxbridge Rural District. Nurse Ward
works Cowley, Hillingdon and West Drayton, Nurse Hands works Ickenham and
Northolt and intervening district, Nurse Davison works Harefield. About 30 children
attend the Harefield Centre. There is a tendency for mothers to bring their children
only when they need actual advice, but the purpose of the Centre is to keep all children
under observation and give periodic weighing, etc. Mothers from comparatively
distant parts do not attend well ; for instance, few of the Moorhall area children
attend the Harefield Centre, due probably to the long hill up into Harefield.
Schools Medical Inspection and Clinics.
There are four of these Clinics in the district: Whitehall Council School,
Uxbridge; Providence Road School, Yiewsley; Harefield Council School, and
Northolt School. The children are examined by a Medical Officer from the Middlesex
County Council from time to time, and minor complaints, mainly skin disorders,
are treated, for example, Ringworm, Impetigo Contagiosa, Scabies, etc.; also minor
injuries.