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SECTION C
HEALTH SERVICES PROVIDED BY MIDDLESEX
COUNTY COUNCIL
AMBULANCE FACILITIES
The Middlesex County Council is responsible for this service.
NURSING IN THE HOME
This service is administered locally by the Middlesex County
Council.
The number of sick persons under care in Acton during the year
was 954 necessitating 31,402 visits.
MATERNITY AND CHILD WELFARE
During the late Autumn of 1955, the boiler at Palmerston Road
Clinic which had already given a great deal of trouble, was declared
to be beyond repair. The entire heating system of the Clinic
was thus out of commission as, except for one small gas fire, there
was no alternative means of providing warmth. Discussions were
entered into with the owners of the property, but they were
unwilling to commit themselves to the very heavy expediture involved.
In view of the relatively short period of the lease it was
not thought possible to insist on this, neither was the County
Council disposed to accept full responsibility for providing a new
boiler to a building with such a comparatively short life, for the
Clinic would ultimately be swallowed up in the South Acton
Redevelopment Scheme. After very full consideration of the needs
of the district, and the facilities available at the nearby Avenue
Road Clinic, it was decided to relinquish the County Council's
tenancy of the building, and consequently the last clinics were
held there in the week ending 3rd December. The Child Welfare
and Ante-Natal clinics were transferred to Avenue Road, as was
the fortnightly chiropody session.