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GENERAL PROVISION OF HEALTH SERVICES
IN THE AREA.
Hospitals Provided or Subsidised by the Local
Authority.
(1) Tuberculosis.—There are no hospitals for tuberculosis in
the Borough. The Tuberculosis Scheme for the district is combined
with that for other districts in the hands of the County
Council, who provide hospital accommodation for cases of tuberculosis
at Clare Hall and elsewhere.
(2) Children.—The King Edward Memorial Hospital has a
ward of 12 beds reserved for children. The Town Council may
use six of these for badly thriving or wasting children who may
require indoor treatment, and who may be referred by the Medical
Officer at the Child Welfare Centre.
(3) and (4) Maternity and Fever.—By an agreement in 1921
the Councils of the Borough of Ealing and the Urban District of
Chiswick placed their respective Isolation Hospitals, which are
in close proximity at South Ealing, in the hands of a newly constituted
Committee, the Chiswick and Ealing Hospitals Committee,
to manage the Chiswick Hospital as a Maternity Hospital for
maternity cases and the Ealing Hospital as a Fever or Isolation
Hospital to deal with cases of scarlet fever, diphtheria, enteric
fever, and when there is accommodation, other infectious diseases,
from both districts. The Maternity Hospital has accommodation
for 20 beds and the Isolation Hospital for 120 beds. The arrangement
has proved very satisfactory not only in providing a maternity
hospital for both districts, but in enabling both institutions to be
managed with great economy.
(5) The Ealing Town Council has a separate Smallpox Hospital
with 12 beds at Perivale, just over the northern boundary of the
Borough. A reception-house for isolating persons who have been
in immediate contact with cases of smallpox is situated at North
Ealing on a site 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.