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HOSPITALS.
Hospitals provided or subsidised by the Local Authority or
by the County Council:—
1. Tuberculosis.—The County Council have two institutions;
The Bell Road Hospital, with 16 beds, and a section
of the West Middlesex Hospital.
2. Maternity. — There is no definite provision in the
district other than the West Middlesex Hospital (Guardians)
for maternity cases apart from private nursing homes charging
considerable fees. There are a few beds in the Hounslow
Hospital and cases can also be dealt with at the West
Middlesex Hospital, but the great majority of the cases which
come under the notice of the Public Health Department are
dealt with by the large London Hospitals.
3. The Hospitals in the district are the West Middlesex
Hospital which is the Poor Law Infirmary. The Hounslow
Hospital with 47 beds, which is entirely supported by voluntary
contributions and the Mogden and Dockwell Hospitals for
Infectious Diseases and Smallpox supported from the rates by
the Councils of Heston and Isleworth and Richmond.
There is practically no difficulty in getting cases into the
West Middlesex Hospital, but there is no out-patient department.
The Hounslow Hospital has a staff of consultants, but there
appears to be a feeling for preference for the larger Hospitals
with national reputation such as Gt. Ormond Street, Queen's
Square, Brompton, Chelsea Hospital for Women and the larger
hospitals. The difficulty in connection with this however, is that
it entails a considerable expense, which many of the parents can
ill afford and in other cases where specialised treatment is wanted,
there is often considerable difficulty in obtaining the necessary
letters demanded by the Hospital.
4. Fever.—This district joins with Richmond in the form
of a Joint Hospital Board, which is responsible for the
Mogden Hospital dealing with Scarlet Fever, Diphtheria and
Enteric, and the Dockwell Hospital with 13 beds for the
accommodation of Smallpox.