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Hospitals Provided by the Local Authority.—(1) Maternity
Hospital.—The Chiswick and Haling Hospitals Committee
maintains a Maternity Hospital at South Ealing to meet the needs
of Chiswick and Ealing. Each district contributes towards the
cost according to its rateable value. The hospital is able to deal
with twenty cases at a time.
(2) Children.—The King Edward Memorial Hospital, which
has a ward specially reserved for children, places six beds at the
disposal of the Town Council for the use of children under 5 years
of age who require indoor treatment. Cases requiring such treatment
are referred by the Medical Officer at the Child Welfare Centre.
(3) Fever.—The Isolation Hospital, which has 120 beds, and
which is maintained by the Chiswick and Ealing Hospitals Committee
for the benefit of the two districts, provides isolation facilities
primarily for cases of scarlet fever, diphtheria and enteric fever,
but other infectious diseases are admitted when accommodation
is available. The hospital is situated in South Ealing.
(4) Smallpox.—The Ealing Town Council possesses a separate
Smallpox Hospital, accommodating twelve patients, at Perivale,
just over the northern boundary of the district. A reception
house for isolating persons who have been in immediate contact
with cases of smallpox is situated at North Ealing on ground
adjoining the Northern Sewage Works and about half-a-mile from
the Smallpox Hospital. This consists of two wards, which provide
for two families, or eight persons.
Ambulance Facilities.—(a) General.—For the removal of
cases of non-infectious illness the Council maintains three motor
ambulances, one of which is lent by the Ambulance Committee of
the Joint Council of the British Red Cross Society and the Order
of St. John. The use of the ambulance for a journey in the district
is given free of charge, but if the journey is outside a charge of
one guinea is made, except in necessitous cases when the fee is
either reduced or remitted.