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GENERAL PROVISION OF HEALTH SERVICES
FOR THE AREA.
Public Hospitals Situated In or Serving the District.
(1) Isolation Hospital.—Cases of infectious disease are isolated
at the Joint Hospital, which is managed by the Chiswick and
Haling Hospitals Committee. At this hospital, which is situated
conveniently just within the southern boundary of the Borough,
cases from the Urban District of Brentford and Chiswick are
also dealt with.
In order to provide sufficient land for extending the hospital
to meet the future needs of the two districts served, the Ealing
Town Council, who own the hospital, entered into negotiations
with, and ultimately purchased from, the Ealing and Old Brentford
Burial Board, one and a half acres of land conveniently situated
on the north of the hospital site. The acquisition of this land will
allow the isolation accommodation to be doubled in the future by
the erection of three pavilions of two wards each. It was necessary
to take this step as the Burial Board were about to lay out the
land and use it for burials. This would have prevented any possible
extension of the hospital in the future.
(2) Smallpox Hospital.—The Smallpox Hospital for the
Borough is situated in the northern part of the district on the north
bank of the Brent and about a quarter of a mile from the northern
Sewage Works. The buildings consist of a small administrative
block and an isolation block of two wards with five beds each.
Two acres of land are enclosed with the buildings, but there are
in the ownership of the Council 27 acres of land adjoining which
can more than meet all possible needs for extension.
(3) Tuberculosis Hospitals.—There are no hospitals for tuberculosis
in the Borough. The Middlesex County Council make
provision for the treatment of cases of tuberculosis at Harefield
Sanatorium and at Clare Hall Hospital.
(4) Maternity Hospital.—The Chiswick and Ealing Hospitals
Committee manage the Maternity Hospital, which was formerly
the Chiswick Isolation Hospital. It serves the needs of the Borough
and of the Urban District of Brentford and Chiswick, and consists