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Ambulance Facilities.
1946 was the first complete post-war year of operation of the
Ambulance Service entirely separate, from Civil Defence. The
system already in use of two watches working a 24-hour shift each
was continued, utilising three ambulances manned by a total of two
Supervisors and ten men divided into the, two watches. The Service
continued to. share the premises of the National Fire Service in
Gunnersbury Lane.
During the year, 1,551 cases of all kinds (including 205
maternity cases) were carried a total distance of 8,511 miles.
From January to the end of October the Acton and Wembley
Joint Hospital Board maintained an ambulance for the removal of
cases of infectious disease. Since the South Middlesex and Richmond
Joint Fe,ver Hospital at Twickenham undertook the treatment of
infectious disease for the Borough, removal of cases has been done
by that Hospital.
Nursing in the Home.
The same facilities exist as in previous years, the number of
sick persons under care was 508, necessitating 14,586 visits.
Hospital Provision.
Early in 1946, owing to the serious shortage of maternity bed .
accommodation in Central Middlesex County Hospital, the
Middlesex County Council approached the responsible officers of the
Acton and Wembley Joint Hospital Board with a view to the two
authorities making other arrangements for the treatment of
infectious diseases in their respective areas, so that the accommodation
of the Acton and Wembley Joint Hospital could be made
available for the County Council to use as an annexe to Central
Middlesex County Hospital Maternity department.