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Sanitary Administration of the District
Three Health Visitors are employed in the Public
Health Department, one acting as Senior, who has
supervisory and other special duties, the other two
acting as District Health Visitors, their areas being
similar to those of the District Inspectors.
Hospital for Infectious Diseases.
The Isolation Hospital for Infectious Diseases is
situated on the southern boundary, the breadth of a road
separating it from Chiswick Hospital and the breadth
of another road separating Chiswick from Brentford
Hospital.
A suggestion put forward in 1919 that thesn
three hospitals should be combined with a view te
saving expenditure resulted in a conference betweeo
representatives of the three District Councils. Ultimately
the Brentford Council withdrew from the discussion,
declining to consent to any amalgamation,
but the Chiswick and Ealing Councils were able
to come to an agreement by which the hospitals will
be managed by a Joint Committee, the Ealing Hospital,
with the Medical Officer of Health of Ealing as
Superintendent, as at present, to be the Isolation Hospital,
and the Chiswick Hospital, with the Medical
Officer of Health of Chiswick as Superintendent, to
be the Maternity Hospital for the two districts. The
proposals are best understood by reference to the
report which was submitted by the Medical Officer
of Health, and to the report of the conference between
the representatives of the Borough of Ealing and of the
Urban District of Chiswick.
It was further decided that the Joint Committee
should take over the control of the Hospitals on the
1st April, 1921.