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HOSPITAL PROVISION.
General.— The Acton Hospital, Gunnersbury Lane, provides
for the treatment of Medical and Surgical cases of both sexes.
It is maintained chiefly by voluntary subscriptions, and the number
of beds is 50; 983 in-patients and 4,940 out-patients were treated
in 1925.
Owing to our proximity to London, probably the general
hospitals of London are utilised by the residents to a greater extent
than the Acton Hospital. Last year 63 residents died in the general
hospitals of London compared with 37 deaths of residents in the
Acton Hospital. The 63 deaths were those which occurred in
voluntary hospitals in London and did not include those who died
in public hospitals such as Tuberculosis Sanatoria, Mental Hospitals,
Infirmaries or Nursing Homes ; 260 deaths or nearly 39 per cent.
of the total deaths occurred in public institutions. This number
does not include deaths in nursing homes. The tendency in the
district is to utilise Hospitals and Nursing Homes to a greater
extent in every succeeding year. In most instances this is due to
want of accommodation in the homes. Even where the family
occupies the whole house, there is not sufficient accommodation
in many of the houses which are now being built, for the efficient
nursing and treatment of severe illnesses.
Fever.—The Council has its own fever hospital, which has
accommodation for 80 patients.
The Borough is one of the constituent bodies which form the
Middlesex Joint Smallpox Board. The Board owns Clare Hall
Sanatorium which can be utilised in case of epidemics. The Joint
Board has an arrangement with the Metropolitan Asylums Board
for the treatment of occasional cases of Smallpox.
Tuberculosis.—The Tuberculosis scheme is administered by
the Middlesex County Council, which has Sanatoria at South
Mimms and Harefield.
Poor Law.—The district is in the Brentford Poor Law Union,
and the Infirmary is at Isleworth.