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TREATMENT CENTRES AND CLINICS.
Under this heading a description is required of any developments or changes
in regard to treatment centres and clinics, including clinics solely for diagnosis or
consultation.
The Council has two health centres:—
No. 1. Accommodated temporarily at the Old Baths Establishment, No.
181, Marylebone Road, during the early part of the year. On the 24th
April, 1940, the Centre was transferred to the new Town Hall Extension,
and comprises a tuberculosis dispensary (with X-ray plant), maternity
and child welfare and various auxiliary clinics, and a diphtheria immunisation
clinic.
No. 2. At No. 217, Lisson Grove, with provision for maternity and child
welfare clinics and auxiliary services of various kinds, including dental
treatment, light therapy and massage.
In addition, consultations held at the Middlesex and Queen Charlotte's Hospitals
form part of the Council's maternity and child welfare scheme.
HOSPITALS: PUBLIC AND VOLUNTARY.
There are no municipal hospitals in the Borough. St. Marylebone is, however,
fortunate in the number of voluntary hospitals and dispensaries of various kinds
situated within its boundaries, and to these cases from the welfare centres are referred
as and when necessary. The Middlesex Hospital is available for ante-natal
and complicated maternity cases and so also was Queen Charlotte's Hospital until
the 19th September, 1940, when the in-patients were transferred from the old
Marylebone Road building to the new hospital in Goldhawk Road, Hammersmith.
Nursing homes in the Borough number 35.
MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE.
A normal service was provided throughout the year and full advantage was
taken of the facilities available at all centres, at each of which a health visitor acts
as superintendent. Table 7 gives an account of the work done during 1940. In
addition to the centres named in this table, consultations are held weekly at the
St. Marylebone and Western General Dispensary.